Archives for December 2006
Eyepiece Filters
Published on 31 Dec 2006 at 8:54 pm.
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Once you get comfortable with your telescope, you might want to consider buying filters for your eyepieces. As I said in my eyepiece post a couple of days ago, telescope eyepieces come in standard diameters. For at least half a century, they have also had standard thread in them, allowing threaded filters to […]
Your first telescope — what should you point it at?
Published on 30 Dec 2006 at 10:27 pm.
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So, you have a new telescope. You get it all set up. Now what? What do you point it at? You look in magazines and see wonderful photos of all sorts of heavenly bodies. That’s what you want to see. Well, the bad news is that they don’t look […]
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Your first telescope - Part 2 (eyepieces)
Published on 29 Dec 2006 at 11:58 pm.
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An important part of a telescope is the eyepiece. Often novices to telescopes don’t realize this. The objective (lens or mirror) focuses the light, but the eyepiece is the lens that you look through to put the light back into a form that your eye can use. Since this is the part […]
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Your first telescope — Part One
Published on 27 Dec 2006 at 8:20 pm.
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Every year, after Christmas or after a birthday, people ask me for help with their new telescope. It is wonderful and exciting to get a telescope as a gift, but if it’s your first telescope, then you often don’t have any idea how to use it. Any instruction manual that comes with it […]
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The five things meme
Published on 27 Dec 2006 at 7:56 pm.
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Hmm. Mary Jo tagged me with this meme. I am supposed to tell five things that people probably didn’t know about me.
1) I don’t know how to swim. My Mom was terrified of water, and never let my Dad teach me how to swim when I was a child, and I […]
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Published on 25 Dec 2006 at 12:08 am.
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Merry Christmas, everyone. Peace on Earth, and good will to all mankind. Let’s take time to remember what this season is all about, and it isn’t shopping …
-Astroprof
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Orion’s Belt
Published on 24 Dec 2006 at 9:43 pm.
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I am now back home from my trip. Driving west early in the morning, leaving for my trip, I saw Orion ahead of me, guiding me onward. As I drove east, returning home, Orion again guided me shortly after sunset. This is the time of year that Orion is up all night long. It is […]
