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01-06-2011, 05:57 PM | #16 |
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dunno if you saw this photo but it pretty much blew my mind.. the eclipse that just happened with the international space station in the shot
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01-06-2011, 06:00 PM | #17 |
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01-06-2011, 06:10 PM | #18 |
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That's awesome. Did you take it outside of city lights?
My nearest neighbors are a mile away and we have very little ground lighting. I have a cheaper telescope and usually just look at the moon with it but that has gotten boring. My goal for the year is to see the rings of Saturn. |
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Also, what camera are you using?
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01-06-2011, 06:39 PM | #20 |
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01-06-2011, 06:46 PM | #21 |
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That rig is only useful when it's snapping candids of some fit coeds.
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01-06-2011, 07:52 PM | #23 |
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Awesome.
I took an Astronomy class and lab a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Want to buy a scope at some point, but we get too much light pollution where we live. |
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01-06-2011, 08:02 PM | #24 |
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I've got a Takahashi FS-102 refractor on a Losmandy G11 mount and a SBIG 8300 CCD camera. Its not a beginner rig but its lighter than my beast and easier to set up. Orion makes good stuff for the most part i have a Orion auto guider and scope on the Takahashi.
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01-06-2011, 09:41 PM | #25 |
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When I was a kid my brother had a telescope. I also spent many a night looking through an eyepiece. But it was because we lived in the city, and I had it trained on the windows of other apartment buildings.
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01-06-2011, 09:43 PM | #26 |
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Almost changed my major after I took astronomy in college. But, then I remembered there aren't many jobs in it.
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01-06-2011, 09:50 PM | #27 |
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Who's narrating this video? Before I watched it I thought it was going to be a Carl Sagan video.
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01-06-2011, 09:55 PM | #28 |
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Pretty cool. I thought reflectors caught more light. Lots of websites for handmade reflectors.
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