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congrats to Patrick, featured on tonight's KSL news at 10
by Richard Tenney 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

It was a nice glimpse at Patrick's observatory and a great tribute to him and his SN discovery. Kudos!

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Not enough backfocus
by Bruce Hugo 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hahahha! Yes, probably a really good thing it is not on his window! Instead of the artificial star, it would be a full moon! ROFL! >> I installed some Bob's Knobs on the Meade LX200GPS 12" and was going to use the Hubble 5-star artificial star generator for collimation. I did the calculation as to how far away to place it. About 40 feet. So I measured to a tree in the back yard from my home office window. 58 feet. The telescope is set up in that room. Unfortunately... the scope does not focus that close. In fact, about the closest I can focus is my neighbor's back fence about 200 feet away. Guess I'll have to ask him if I can set the Hubble on his fence one of these nights. Hahahaa! >Better on his fence than on his window... :) ------------------------------

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Not enough backfocus
by Bruce Hugo 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

I installed some Bob's Knobs on the Meade LX200GPS 12" and was going to use the Hubble 5-star artificial star generator for collimation. I did the calculation as to how far away to place it. About 40 feet. So I measured to a tree in the back yard from my home office window. 58 feet. The telescope is set up in that room. Unfortunately... the scope does not focus that close. In fact, about the closest I can focus is my neighbor's back fence about 200 feet away. Guess I'll have to ask him if I can set the Hubble on his fence one of these nights. Hahahaa! Anyone ever used one of these Hubble 5-star artificial stars? Any tricks I should know of? Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. - Edwin Powell Hubble

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A great astrophoto -- of us!
by Joe Bauman 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-stunning-view-earth-99-180616132.html

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Star party Cedar Hills Elem. (N. Utah County) next Thurs. -- need help
by Richard Tenney 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

I'm planning to host a "star" party (gonna be mostly moon and bright objects instead) for Cedar Hills Elementary school this coming Thursday the 13th, weather permitting, and could use a couple of extra hands/telescopes if you can spare an hour or two that night, I (and the school) would be grateful. More details later; please RSVP to me if you can help. TIA, /Rich

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Star party Cedar Hills Elem. (N. Utah County) next Thurs. -- need help
by Richard Tenney 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

I'm planning to host a "star" party (gonna be mostly moon and bright objects instead) for Cedar Hills Elementary school this coming Thursday the 13th, weather permitting, and could use a couple of extra hands/telescopes if you can spare an hour or two that night, I (and the school) would be grateful. More details later; please RSVP to me if you can help. TIA, /Rich

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Star party Cedar Hills Elem. (N. Utah County) next Thurs. -- need help
by Richard Tenney 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

I'm planning to host a "star" party (gonna be mostly moon and bright objects instead) for Cedar Hills Elementary school this coming Thursday the 13th, weather permitting, and could use a couple of extra hands/telescopes if you can spare an hour or two that night, I (and the school) would be grateful. More details later; please RSVP to me if you can help. TIA, /Rich

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon
by Bruce Hugo 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Hey Patrick, I used my Nikon D800 (36 megapixel). ISO was 640. The Orion 80ED is f/ 7.5. I was around 1/00th of a second for shutter speed. I was varying shutter speed and don't remember which speed I used for this photo off the top of my head. To get the Nikon into focus, I also used a Televue 2.5x powermate with the Nikon T-adaptor on it. Bruce ------------------------------ From: Wiggins Patrick <paw(a)getbeehive.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Wiggins Patrick <paw(a)getbeehive.net> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon Message-ID: <A41FE5CA-9F40-4A1E-B2AB-B98E7C7213C1(a)getbeehive.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Very nice shot. What camera did you use? patrick

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Moon
by Bruce Hugo 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

It looked relatively clear last night driving home so I put the Orion 80ED and camera on the back deck to allow them to reach ambient temperature. Later I took some quick unguided photos of the moon. This one turned out well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22238456@N04/12348686463/ Bruce Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. - Edwin Powell Hubble

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Next ATM session
by Hutchings, Mat 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Hi folks, the next ATM session will be in March. This month is just too busy for me. I'll send out another e-mail with the date in March; tentatively it will be the 15th. Take care, Mat This message and any attachments are solely for the use of intended recipients. The information contained herein may include trade secrets, protected health or personal information, privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system. Thank you for your cooperation

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