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Venus Transit 2012
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12 years 6 months ago #94130
by Seanie_Morris
Don't forget your wife, I hear she can get verrry cross...
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Radio Presenter (Midlands 103), Space Enthusiast, Astronomy Outreach Co-ordinator.
Former IFAS Chairperson and Secretary.
Replied by Seanie_Morris on topic Re: Venus Transit ?
lunartic wrote:
fingers crossed on having a clear sky
I'll be crossing anything that can be crossed.
Don't forget your wife, I hear she can get verrry cross...
Midlands Astronomy Club.
Radio Presenter (Midlands 103), Space Enthusiast, Astronomy Outreach Co-ordinator.
Former IFAS Chairperson and Secretary.
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12 years 6 months ago #94131
by lunartic_old
Gee thanks, she's right behind me as I read that and I'm in for it now.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Rich Cook
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Don't forget your wife, I hear she can get verrry cross...
Gee thanks, she's right behind me as I read that and I'm in for it now.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Rich Cook
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12 years 6 months ago - 12 years 6 months ago #94138
by Calibos
Keith D.
16" Meade Lightbridge Truss Dobsonian with Servocat Tracking/GOTO
Ethos 3.7sx,6,8,10,13,17,21mm
Nagler 31mm
Replied by Calibos on topic Re: Venus Transit 2012
Well, I made my Filter for my Stellarvue F80 Finder/Spotting/RFT scope. Boiled sweet tin with the bottom dremeled out and spraypainted with the dregs of a spraycan left over from a previous mod.
Got a few minutes of clear skies this afternoon to test it out. Its very counter intiutive but all those wrinkles are invisible in the view as I was told they would be (but didn't quite believe).
Used an orange planetary filter on the eyepiece to change the white disc view to pale orange for aesthetic reasons. I actually think it made the small sunspots on the disc more visible tbh.
Fingers crossed for Wednesday. I'm ready!!
Got a few minutes of clear skies this afternoon to test it out. Its very counter intiutive but all those wrinkles are invisible in the view as I was told they would be (but didn't quite believe).
Used an orange planetary filter on the eyepiece to change the white disc view to pale orange for aesthetic reasons. I actually think it made the small sunspots on the disc more visible tbh.
Fingers crossed for Wednesday. I'm ready!!
Keith D.
16" Meade Lightbridge Truss Dobsonian with Servocat Tracking/GOTO
Ethos 3.7sx,6,8,10,13,17,21mm
Nagler 31mm
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12 years 6 months ago #94152
by dave_lillis
Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)
Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.
+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor
Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re: Venus Transit 2012
well, just seen the weeks weather on RTE1, and it doesn't look great for wednesday, its a mixed bag, tbh it doesn't look great.
Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)
Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go.
+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor
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