I bought one

Stop by some time and take a look through a large binocular telescope.


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At riders hobby shop looking at telescopes

Checking out the binoscope.



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Good time at the observatory tonight

Brian and I had couple visitors.


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May go out late to the observatory after running errands

I'm thinking of going out there around 11:15pm.

I have some errands to run tonight, so he exact time I'll be there isn't set but I'll post an update here.

The sky looks good, if I'm out there I'll likely be there until at least 1:15am


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Went out and focused on Mars and Saturn only.

Mostly Saturn with my 10 inch Newtonian that I hauled along.

Saturn was low on the horizon and lights from the school likely added light artifacts to the image I was seeing.

The dome cut out all the outside light from the low lights and this gave a big advantage to the C 14.

I'd post more but I'm fairly brain dead at this time and need to get some sleep.

Shot of the big shootout below. Didn't have any visitors during the time I was there and this allowed me to take some time taking mostly night photographs. I tried to take some photos of Saturn with the camera on the 2 inch guide scope on the Big Newtonian but I ran out of time and didn't get any decent shots worth posting of Saturn.





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Opening up for two hours possible more

From 10:30 to 12;30 pm tonight


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Hot day to be pulling a mirror out

Pulled mirror out ild blue tube to test it.

I'm taking it out to George Korody's test bench to test the old mirror.

Check out my cars temp reading below.


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