[Chaos-l] [Medoc-mountain-men] tonght

[C Tony Garcia]

That's great !   I really enjoy that telescope. 

Loved the Venus transit views through it.    

I think you've already pushed it farther than I have !!   I'm usually hanging around at 122x and 244x  occasionally.  


On Jun 9, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Mark Montazer <mark at montazer.org> wrote:

> Well, it was my intention to get out to Medoc tonight, since I was too
> tired last night, but the forecast doesn't justify the drive tonight.
> Fingers crossed for next weekend though.
> 
> I suspect the weather is misbehaving because I picked up an Explore
> Scientific Mak-Newt (thanks to Tony Garcia for entertaining my
> questions about it.) I did get a chance to play with it on my balcony
> last night and scraped a couple of photons from the Lagoon Nebula
> (http://astrobin.com/12593/). I had to over-stretch it to bring out
> the detail, but it's much better than my achro would produce.
> Actually, since I don't have to deal with chromatic aberration I took
> a shot of Antares (http://astrobin.com/12523/) and was happily
> surprised at how yellow it was (I was using daylight white balance.)
> 
> When the moon came up I decided to push the magnification a bit and
> threw in a 4.5mm eyepiece with a 2X Barlow for 325X. To my surprise
> the view was still excellent. Granted, the moon is really bright
> target, but my achro was far more restrictive in that regard. Anyhow,
> I'm looking forward to observing at Medoc soon.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org> wrote:
>> There is a large band of clouds headed our way, and probably thin
>> clouds behind it until another big cloud formation arrives.  I'm going
>> to stay home.  With only about a 2.5 hour window between astronomical
>> twilight and moon rise, I think there's too big a chance that the
>> clouds could ruin most of it.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Allen Davis <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>> I may try to come to Medoc tonight but I am not sure.  But that shoudn't
>>> stop anyone from coming.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Let me know if you are planning to come.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We had a great night last sunset till moonrise.  allen
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> E. Allen Davis
>>> 
>>> starstorm151 at embarqmail.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "M'Illumino              "I am enlightened
>>> 
>>> D'Immenso"              by the immensity."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   -Ungaretti               -Ungaretti
>>> 
>>> 
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