Cloudy Nights Review Contest
By Mike Loffland
| Astronomics, Meade, and Cloudy Nights have come together to give you the chance to make your holidays a little brighter. We've joined to give away a $1499 value Meade ETX-LS 6” ACF (Advanced Coma-Free) Go-To Telescope on December 15th, 2009. |
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A Deep Sky Guide for Amateur
Astronomers by Tom Trusock.
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Binocular Universe
by Phil Harrington.
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CCD / Imaging
by Craig Stark.
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Monthly View of the Skies
by Dick Cookman
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Your Old Uncle Rod Shares His
Adventures and Misadventures
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Professional Writer Steve Coe's
Monthly Observing Column.
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Aimless ramblings
by Mike Bieler
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September Winner:
Congratulations neutronman!
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 | Meade LightBridge 16"
[User Review] | 11/12/09 | by Fred Rayworth
| | | The scope comes in three major pieces, plus the truss tubes. You have the base, the mirror cage, and upper cage. I had first guessed it would all fit in a compact car, but the base is way too big to fit in a trunk or squeeze through a back door |
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 | Sky-Watcher SW12 Dobsonian
[User Review] | 11/11/09 | by Kevin Zoellner
| | | The azimuth bearing is a plastic wagon wheel with imbedded needle bearings sandwiched between two galvanized steel plates. You can lightly |
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 | Celestron 1.25" Eyepiece and Accessory Kit
[User Review] | 11/11/09 | by Tristan Schwartz
| | | he included case has a very sturdy feel to it, but I have one somewhat serious quibble. While the pre-cut foam interior includes (some) space to add additional accessories (three more eyepieces and one more filter), the foam interior is not |
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 | Red Lamp Review
[User Review] | 11/10/09 | by Carol Anderson
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have many red lights and none were really the "perfect" red light for reading my charts. I'd lay my light down, &
misplace it, when I needed it |
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 | The Pentax 5mm XO: A Planetary Weapon of Choice
[User Review] | 11/06/09 | by William Paolini
| | | The Pentax 2.5mm and 5mm XO series of eyepieces ("O" for visual Observation) were released by Pentax for the 2003 Mars opposition event. Based on my research of public online archives and marketing releases, Pentax¡¦s optical design goals for the XO series were |
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 | Orion 120 mm F5 Short Tube Achromatic Refractor
[User Review] | 10/30/09 | by Richard Evans
| | | After owning the scope for a while, I decided to try some color deep sky imaging with it. My thought was that maybe problems caused by chromatic aberration inherent in essentially all short focal length achromats might be able to be tamed in image post-processing |
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