Bill, While looking in the eyepiece, take your hand and place it near the top of the tube and ever so slightly nudge it towards due South. The FOV in the...
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... I ordered the AN and encoders direct from Gary, paid by electronic funds transfer, and picked them up at the post office here in Coldwater four days later....
... Excuse my third reaction to this same post - but now I may have understood the underlying reason for the question... and its solution! The MTO-11CA (1000...
There has been enough said on this topic but I did search back through my emails and found one of Gary's responses to my initial inquiry. I thought Gary...
... Although I now live in the country, for most of my life I was an urban observer. My answer is very simple: my most used telescope was always my largest ...
... I've not used Sky Commander myself, which is why I posted the link to Tom Trusock's comparative review on Cloudy Nights. My experience with DSCs is ...
... I haven't decided this yet. So far, I've just been setting the AN box down on my observing table. I definitely wouldn't mount it on the mirror box, since...
Hi Bill, I struggled with this a long time (I live about 15 miles north of DC, so the whole southern sky is a light dome, maybe mag 4.5 at zenith on a good...
http://www.vixenamerica.com/StartPage/ I have no idea who Vixen will be selling through now, or if they will deal directly with their vendors or what is...
... Thanks for the update, Joe. It's always something in this industry, isn't it? Time to update my Star Ware 4 manuscript again. Phil ... Phil Harrington ...
... to Tom Trusock's comparative review on Cloudy Nights. ... One of the guys in our observing group uses Sky Commander on his dob, which I use from time to...
... -snip- My other advise is to keep an eye on Meade in the next few months. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MEAD Look at the latest article from just a couple...
Dave, Hah!...now THAT'S funny! I'm actually very familiar with the weird telescope site, hence my mention of Jose Sasian's tilted component six inch scope,...
... The scariest line is in one of the other links on that page: "On Tuesday, the company said that accounting errors uncovered by its stock-option review...
So, Joe, in your opinion, is Meade in serious financial trouble? Clear skies, Kevin Dixon www.kevindixon.westhost.com From: Joseph O'Neil ... -snip- My other...
... Interesting. Here's the Edmund Scientific website I mentioned with the orange band Plossls. Same focal lengths and same appearance, cheaper prices. Plus,...
... I did ... 12 & ... and, no ... Edmund sold it's comsumer product division a number of years ago (can't remember who it was sold to), includind the "Edmund ...
Thanks Greg and Don. Don, for clarification....let's say scope is pointed in high west. When you say grab scope top and nudge south, do you mean straight down...
"...One of the reasons the smaller scopes aren't used much is that they take significantly longer to set up and take down. Almost all are equatorially mounted,...
I think an 8" reflector on a GoTo mount would be a nice combination. Re the mount, I bought a Celestron CG5-GT last year which I recently upgraded to the...
Bill, Grab is to heavy handed. Just use you finger to apply slight pressure. Using your example, you will be behind the telescope and facing West. Take your...
... I dunno. Usually these stories are not so much the problem itself, believe it or not, but often a symptom of something deeper. What that "deeper" is -...
So it looks like Meade may be in finacial trouble,hmmmm, I seem to remember a few years ago that Celestron and Meade tried to join forces because of money...
Thanks, Jim for the response. I actually called the guy at Anttlers Optics. He's a very nice guy and very informative. Unfortunately, that's a bit over my...
You might want to check out a book called "The Urban Astronomer" by Rod Mollise. It's available from Amazon. It has a lots of great tips for observing in an...
Hmmmmmm wasn't Coronado brought out by Meade recently-ish? if so I wonder where that will leave folks who brought the PST and it's issues with the objective...
About six months ago, a member of our local club sent a link to an analysis done by one of Meade's major stockholders. The report indicated that Meade is...
Hi: After 10 years I have to agree with most folks here; the bigger scope you have in an urban area the more you will see. Especially if you have a setup that...
