Telescopes

Unread post by **{DOU}plumber** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:10 pm

Went to a Star watching party in the Thacahachee Strand, south of Everglades City and got to see the sky like I've never seen before.
This one guy had a 10 foot 12inch Dobsonian.
It was so wicked, gonna built my own(not as big) to take camping.
Saw Saturn, Jupiter with 4 of its Moons and Mars.
Orion and the Crab Nebula and many diffrent star clusters.
IT ROCKED!
Anybody else do any star gaze'n?

GRouND ZeRo · Unread post by **GRouND ZeRo** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:46 pm

Please get me those plans!

Unread post by **{DOU}Charger** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:54 pm

I have two smaller scopes and do alot of star gazing myself. Always wanted a bigger one but could not afford one.

GRouND ZeRo · Unread post by **GRouND ZeRo** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:59 pm

It would be a great project!

Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:04 pm

I would assume that the mirror would be expensive.

Moon · Unread post by **Moon** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:38 am

Dam nice scopes to snipe !!!

Sky is great and when I consider how small we all are, I feel much more humble. Nothing can look important besides of our universe !
I started sky watching when I was 16 and stopped then but I think it's a thing everyone should do a time in his life.
Things take a better real place then...

Have fun guys !...

Unread post by **{DOU}Cygnus** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:46 am

Moon wrote:Dam nice scopes to snipe !!!

I think Jupiter is just a weeeeeee bit out of range.

I want to get into that myself but there's always something else going on.

I did take a camping trip to the UP (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) 7 or 8 years ago. I was on the western shore of Lake Gogebic. Caught several small walleyes and had the pleasure of viewing a spectacular Northern Lights.
Around here, we have the Barlow Planetarium and they give entertaining shows year 'round.
But if you really want to view some cold, dead space, come to Oshkosh and have a look inside upper management's heads where I work.

-JB

Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:41 am

{dou-r} Cygnus X-1 wrote:
Moon wrote:Dam nice scopes to snipe !!!

But if you really want to view some cold, dead space, come to Oshkosh and have a look inside upper management's heads where I work.

-JB

Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:25 am

{DOU}Charger wrote:
{dou-r} Cygnus X-1 wrote:
Moon wrote:Dam nice scopes to snipe !!!

But if you really want to view some cold, dead space, come to Oshkosh and have a look inside upper management's heads where I work.

-JB

Hes not kidding

its sad...... reeeeeeally sad

Unread post by **{DOU}Cygnus** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:19 pm

-=Bi§oN=- wrote:
{DOU}Charger wrote:
{dou-r} Cygnus X-1 wrote:
But if you really want to view some cold, dead space, come to Oshkosh and have a look inside upper management's heads where I work.

-JB

Hes not kidding its sad...... reeeeeeally sad

Yeah, can't believe no one has gone postal yet.
::violent069::

-JB

Unread post by **{DOU}plumber** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:45 pm

The Jargonaut wrote:I would assume that the mirror would be expensive.

Depends, seems you can spend as much as you want

Tracking a 10 inch primary mirror on the E-bay its up to 160.00,
all by itself.
Gonna build me an 8 I think. cuz like I said want to carry it camping.

Its truly something everyone should do, Thats how much star gaze'n
kicks ass!

GRouND ZeRo · Unread post by **GRouND ZeRo** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:27 am

{DOU}plumber wrote:
The Jargonaut wrote:I would assume that the mirror would be expensive.

Depends, seems you can spend as much as you want

Tracking a 10 inch primary mirror on the E-bay its up to 160.00,
all by itself.
Gonna build me an 8 I think. cuz like I said want to carry it camping.

Its truly something everyone should do, Thats how much star gaze'n
kicks ass!

WHAT??? no plans???

Not even some simple math on how to put it together???

Unread post by **{DOU}plumber** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:33 pm

Plans for them are all over the web,
you can even get lens kits.

Unread post by **{DOU}Cygnus** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:06 am

Did a search for Hubble images....some of these are simply breath-taking....
http://images.google.com/images?q=hubbl ... s&ct=title

Moon · Unread post by **Moon** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:13 am

{dou-r} Cygnus X-1 wrote:Did a search for Hubble images....some of these are simply breath-taking....
http://images.google.com/images?q=hubbl ... s&ct=title

I have a bunch in a folder somewhere. I downloaded all that stuff 5 or 6 years ago and that already was amazing !!! I think there are much better more now !