RE: Some Astrophotos I took on my birthday (August 4)
August 16, 2011 at 1:03 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2011 at 1:17 am by orogenicman.)
(August 15, 2011 at 11:30 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Beautiful. I have no idea on what the hell all of this means ......
....but your pictures are epic. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks.
If everyone comes to the observatory, you will find out. It's just the equipment and exposures I used to take the photos. We post those so other amateurs can reference them and use them to get similar results, should they want/need to.
(August 15, 2011 at 9:20 am)Rhythm Wrote: Used to have a Celestron Newtonian. Gift from the wife before she was the wife. Duaghters relieved me of that late last year.
With the right dovetail mounts, it would have fit right on my mount. Was it a 6 inch, an 8 " or something else?
Celstron makes decent Newtonians, but their real forte is theSchmidt Cassegrain -
![[Image: celestron-advanced-series-c11-sgt-schmid...-telescope]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=deerhuntingpro.com%2Fstore%2Fimage%2F892001337420466%2Fcelestron-advanced-series-c11-sgt-schmidt-cassegrain-telescope%2F)
If money was not an issue for me, this is what I'd own:
![[Image: 12inchTube.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.rcopticalsystems.com%2Ftelescopes%2Fimages%2F12inchTube.jpg)
Here is the link to the specs:
http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/telescopes/12tube.html
Like I said, if money was not the issue.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
