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January 11 2007 Thursday
Topic Started: Jan 11 2007, 07:51 AM (101 Views)
JohnMaier
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John -- Delhi NY Western.Catskill Mts.
'morning Folks,

Yesterday's high was 26, with an overnight low this morning of 7F--how about that--average! Fortunately, it won't last. Maybe 50 again by Sunday, and the two or three inches of snow on the ground will be gone!

Campfire Soapbox was again spam free this morning. Since the registration procedure was changed, 12 prospective members have requested membership, but none has returned the required email. If you're not a spammer, and you have registered, simply reply to the email from Chris, and you'll be a member!

Youz guys have a nice day,

JM

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Good morning, all,\

Your high for the day was colder than our low last night. Got up this morning to 29 degrees and frost all over the place. Thermometer shows right at 32 now and it should warm up a bit.

Otherwise, nothing too exciting planned for the day. UPS shows the computer parts are all in the Atlanta area and a couple of the boxes are "out for delivery." Once everything gets here, I'll open a new thread in Technobabble to share the build experience - the good, the bad and the merely incompetent.

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Did you ever see the out-takes from This Old House and the other home improvement shows? They really need to leave that stuff in!! They make it look so easy....until you see the out-takes. Either they don't want to discourage people, or they don't want to look like jerks, But hey! We need to know. Hopefully there won't be any "out-takes" from Eric's project! :thumbsup:
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I've started a new thread in Technobabble about the new machine build process.

I'm hoping there are no out-takes!
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"...spam free ..."

Now I can go back to being the Maytag Repairman!

It's funny, with automated registration spammers got email and had to click on link to complete process. So they must have watched for and read that email. Now no response. Maybe because of the time delay. I also find about 10% are bad email addys to begin with.


Eric, question if you see this. Would love to get started in star gazing but have limited time and funds. I few places recommend starting of with astronomy binoculars. Found some at Meade, Astro Astronomy binoculars. What's your take on that? Worth while?
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If you really want to get started, Chris, I suggest buying nothing right off the bat.

Most amateurs have, along with all the other stuff, a good pair of binoculars. But, like with telescopes, they are useless UNLESS you can actually point them at something.

The best way to get started is to spend some time with a star chart and your naked eyes. Once you can find your way around the major constellations and brighter stars, then it's time to move up to binocs or a telescope. Head down to Barnes and Noble and pick up the latest issue of Sky and Tel or Astronomy, get a lawn chair and a DIM red flashlight and learn the sky.

Everything becomes so much easier once you've learned your way around the sky. There are a lot of interesting things visible even without any optics, but the time spent learning the sky is time well spent.

Those Meade binoculars look very nice, but at 44 oz and 9x they are gonna be a stone bitch to handhold steadily. I'd suggest starting out with a 7x35 (Meade has a pair right
here that are less than half the weight and far easier to use without a tripod. You will not want to observe standing up or you'll end up with one of the world's great cricks in your neck!

Light binocs and a reclining lawn chair are the way to go.

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You're probably right, Eric. Bought a bood recently, How to Identify Night Sky that goes over all the basics, but I still get lost looking up, maybe if San Antonio would turn off the lights once in a while! Guess I'll just keep p;ugging away.
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