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Hi, I don't know much about laser pointers but the one I was suckered into buying, two years ago when I first got into astronomy, does something funny. It does...
Come join us at the 7th Annual Shingletown Star party from June 30 - July 7 2008! Located on an unused airstrip at an altitude of 4,000 feet in Northern ...
I'm currently using a Celestron heavy duty Alt/Az mount and tripod that seems to have quite a bit of "slop" in the positioning and adjustment. The fine tuning...
Hi Bill, What type of telescope are you planning to stick on the mount? I have a friend who uses the Vixen Porta mount with a small APO refractor and it works...
I picked up a E-Image 717A Head by Weifeng off EBay for $60 and use on my existing tripod and love it! Bob ... From: njtrumpeter <njtrumpeter@...> To:...
... I have the Orion VersaGo mount, and use it with Orion's 80mm and 100mm ED refractors. The head itself is well made and very smooth, but unfortunately it's...
Geoff I had been wondering about the tripod on the VersaGo. The head looked well made but the legs looked liks they came right off an EQ2. Wish they would sell...
Hi Bill, I use a Porta Mount with a Vixen 130 reflector and a non-Vixen 90mm refractor, and the quality and performance are excellent. Admittedly i am not a...
Hi John, I'm going to use a 4" refractor (about 5#) or a 5" Mak (about 9#) on the mount. Do you know if it has both coarse and fine adjustments? The Vixen ...
Thanks Geoff. I'm going to use a 4" refractor (about 5#) or a 5" Mak (about 9#) on the mount. Does it have both coarse and fine adjustments? The Orionn website...
No one should have a legitimate use for anything more than 5mw. I assume that our friend here with the poorly aimed laser paid less that the normal $100 range...
... I use an 11 inch Starmaster, and a 10 inch CPT and both are truss scopes and I am very happy with them. The CPT collapses, a great advantage. The SM...
... It has very smooth Teflon clutches on both axes, but no "adjustments" (by which I assume you mean slow motion controls). It's basically like a Dobsonian...
Hi Bill, The Vixen Porta mount has slow motion controls on both axes. You "slip the clutches" for major directional movements and use the slow motion controls...
Hi Bob, I have a good alt-mount for my 80mm scopes what I am looking for is a grab and go for my SV102BV. I love being able to take my 80mm out for a quick...
Barbara, My first laser pointer was the same brand sold by your friend. Mine is living in a land fill some where. First year the pointer was fine then for...
Gene I agree I have a 10" Antares DOB and it fits in my car just as well as my old 6" f8 DOB. The Antares is not that hard for me to handle and there is no...
... Field lens is quite close to the bottom, just screwed in enough so that it doesn't touch anything when you set it down. I don't think a few mm one way or...
Hi Barbara Syriac I do I some times have to take out groups of up to 50 people regardles of moon phase any thing less than 20mw would be usles. Luckely most of...
Hi Jonathan R A person with experiance disasebling small electical devices mite be able to fix it. the trick is finding such a person. clear skys from down...
Hi zwhzjh There are a great deal of lasers on the market some good some not so good I use lases from www.betapointer.com Beta Electronics where you can get an...
Gary and all, Sorry, I tend to forget how blessed we are with our dark skies here in Idaho. I understand there might be a need for more power elsewhere. I ...
... Dark skies wont necessarily make your laser any brighter, it has more to do with particles in the atmosphere, even allowing it to work to some degree in...
Thanks Doug - I saw it in S&T Magazine and am going to take a look at it as well. ... Astronomics, where i heard about it. ... that ... adjustment. ... Porta ...
... here in ... elsewhere. I ... more to ... some ... buying it. ... cheaper ... Hi Ozzy I agree on the particles in the atmosphere side of what you say even ...
