Guy, I'm afraid my backyard can't accommodate a camera that size ... But the mount you built for my 12" works beautifully! I spent Sunday night in the Emery County desert with my telescope and everything worked great -- except there was a transmission problem in getting the photos from the camera into the laptop. That was because of interference from either the power supply or from a too-long USB cable that got tangled. But the tracking was tack-in, using a refractor in the mount. -- Joe --- On Tue, 11/25/08, diveboss@xmission.com <diveboss@xmission.com> wrote: From: diveboss@xmission.com <diveboss@xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Free Baker-Nunn telescopes To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 9:05 PM How much can freight be really??? Go for it Joe, I'll build you a mount for your camera. ;) Quoting Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com>:
There WAS something like that in a little observatory not far from our home, fairly close to the beach as I remember. I think it was used to photograph missile launches from Kwaj. Ah, home sweet home. jb
--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Free Baker-Nunn telescopes To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 8:43 PM
On 25 Nov 2008, at 20:34, Joe Bauman wrote:
Hummm. Would one of these be any good for SPOC? -- Joe
I didn't think so. But I mentioned it to Bruce. No interest.
patrick
p.s. Maybe in your backyard? Maybe it was the one that used to be on Kwajalein
(http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650075764_1965075764....
).
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