January 29, 2006
A wonderful encounter with "glowy things"
Bren and I were in Rochester, MA the other night to spend a couple of hours with our grandchildren, Jeremy and Amanda. It was wonderfully clear, they have a nice dark site, and so I brought along the Orion 6-inch...January 28, 2006
Do you see what I see!
The Orion Nebula as only Hubble can see it - the image is another reality in itself. “The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again.” J. Krishnamurti One...January 26, 2006
Great discovery - maybe
Hey, isn't the big question, are we alone? And isn't one of the key questions relating to that is Earth unique? If so, this latest research discovery is far more significant than all of the other discoveries we've seen...January 23, 2006
Seeing red – hey, that’s a good thing!
January 21, 2006 –4:30 am – 6:35 am - high, thin clouds – 38 – transparency average (in selected locations), seeing average; moon 21 days old, fairly low (38 degrees) in the south, but certainly lighting up the yard...January 20, 2006
Update to the ST-80 mount problem
My big complaint with the Orion ShortTube-80 refractor has been the mount I have it on. (See the previous post.) I just spent an hour or two fooling around with it on one type of binocular mount which didn’t work...
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