anyone got telescopes?

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by panag



hi ,

and what if you take a two hour drive , .......

have a nice day

he'd drown?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by panag



hi ,

and what if you take a two hour drive , .......

have a nice day

Sometimes, two hours wouldn't get me far over the border. Plus, with my work schedule, I wouldn't get any sleep. South of here, there's spots, but "road" conditions get pretty entertaining, and humidity is still hard to get away from on the Baja peninsula.

Eventually, I want to buy a site where reasonable security is possible, and set up two or three 1.5 to 2 meter remotely controllable domes, a portable generator, satellite broadband, and move in all the hardware and run them remotely.

[Panag]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Sometimes, two hours wouldn't get me far over the border. Plus, with my work schedule, I wouldn't get any sleep. South of here, there's spots, but "road" conditions get pretty entertaining, and humidity is still hard to get away from on the Baja peninsula.

Eventually, I want to buy a site where reasonable security is possible, and set up two or three 1.5 to 2 meter remotely controllable domes, a portable generator, satellite broadband, and move in all the hardware and run them remotely.

hi ,

, how are you from the ocean , ......

if you need help with one or two remote sentry guns , .....

have a nice day

[Odin]

My favorate thing to see is the Andromeda galaxy. It is spectacular even im my 4-incher.

It sucks that the southern hemisphere has more cool stuff in the sky than we do.

[The Mad Monk]

Wrong thread.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Odin
My favorate thing to see is the Andromeda galaxy. It is spectacular even im my 4-incher.

It sucks that the southern hemisphere has more cool stuff in the sky than we do.

hi ,

6000 plus with the naked eye and ya aint satisfied , ........

have a nice day

[Odin]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

6000 plus with the naked eye and ya aint satisfied , ........

have a nice day

We want the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Milky Way!

[Panag]

Originally posted by Odin


We want the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Milky Way!

hi ,

live six months of the year on each part , ......

actually the southern cross is magnificent

have a nice day

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Yeah, they discontinued those, since Meade is a little pricier than everyone else, and the market for journeyman level 10 and less Newts and Dobs is pretty crowded.

It's about to be 12' and under, GSO (ie Orion, Hardin et al) have started making 12' mirrors, so expect a flood of cheap f5 Newts in the next year or so....

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Odin
My favorate thing to see is the Andromeda galaxy. It is spectacular even im my 4-incher.

It sucks that the southern hemisphere has more cool stuff in the sky than we do.

M13, but yeah the Magellanic Clouds are something special

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by panag



hi ,

, how are you from the ocean , ......

if you need help with one or two remote sentry guns , .....

have a nice day

You mean how far from the ocean? From where I'm sitting now, 300-400 meters or so.

There's some good mountains about 300 kilometers (by road) or so SSE with the highest being Pico del Diablo at 3095 meters, (inaccessible) but in a lot of the boonies areas, you have real problems with road quality (passable, but slow going) and wind and dust. The Baja peninsula is at most 150 km wide here, with the Gulf of California wider than that, shallow, warm, and the recipient of lots of residual weather systems that come up from the Pacific coast of southern Mexico (down in those nice, steamy tropics).

Finding good seeing conditions around here, in range that you can round trip it overnight and have a good amount of observing time, is a bit tough.

[Panag]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


You mean how far from the ocean? From where I'm sitting now, 300-400 meters or so.

There's some good mountains about 300 kilometers (by road) or so SSE with the highest being Pico del Diablo at 3095 meters, (inaccessible) but in a lot of the boonies areas, you have real problems with road quality (passable, but slow going) and wind and dust. The Baja peninsula is at most 150 km wide here, with the Gulf of California wider than that, shallow, warm, and the recipient of lots of residual weather systems that come up from the Pacific coast of southern Mexico (down in those nice, steamy tropics).

Finding good seeing conditions around here, in range that you can round trip it overnight and have a good amount of observing time, is a bit tough.

hi ,

so if you are close to the water ( that must be nice with storms , ...... ) get a boat and sail out , in Israel thats what several people do each weekend to get away from the light polution , they go out a couple miles , the scope is on a special platform , ....... it seems to work till a certain level , never tried before with a scope , ......

have a nice day