AP1200 v ETX70

Bloody hell - what language are you guys speaking?

CDD/OTA/photometry/AP1200/ETC ...

Anyone recommend a dictionary? :lol:

Sorry Steve - we're getting carried away here

AP1200GTO - an Astro-Physics German Equatorial computerised mount.

CCD - charge-coupled device (a camera with a special light-sensitve chip inside - the chip is the CCD). Webcams and digital cameras use CMOS chips.

OTA - optical tube assembly, or telescope

Photometry - the technique of measuring the light emitted/reflected from an object (star, planet, etc)

ETC - et cetera - Latin - 'et' is 'and', and its 25 plus years since I did Latin so I've forgotten what 'cetera' means - probably 'so on'

Actually - good idea about the dictionary. There must be some good astro dictionaries out there in web-land... Anyone got any links?

Cheers

Dave McD

I love wikipedia. Its an amazing web site

See;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometry_%28astronomy%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telescope
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_cetera :lol:

Extraordinary amount of articles.

ETC - et cetera - Latin - 'et' is 'and', and its 25 plus years since I did Latin so I've forgotten what 'cetera' means - probably 'so on'

That was supposed to be ETX but cetera does mean so on iirc.

You know Dave McD, you might have just pipped Bill_H as the soup cauldren capital now! Poor Bill, he'll have to sell Leslie and the kids in order to compete with that mount!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

That is a phenomenal piece of kit. I knew it would be big, but I'm speechless.