..you will lose.

Last Friday, I had made an offer on a lightly used CGEM "GOTO" medium sized imaging mount. The seller was asking "$1100 dollars + shipping or best offer". The next day I got a response - that a "Canadian had made an offer of $1060, but he rather not ship to Canada ( Read more... )

Is it SHINY time yet?

Its been awhile since I've done any deep-sky SHINY. The observatory still needs to be re-built and I need a better imaging system. However, I may have solved problem number 2. Over the weekend, I sent in an offer for a 'new' (actually 1-year old) medium sized German Equatorial Mount posted on Astromart. If I get it, the ( Read more... )

Imaging Trials at Stooge's East

The Good..
Well, it was a very mixed bag last night. On the major PLUS side - the scope tracked beautifully, meaning that my polar alignment and scope balancing was spot on.

The BADI couldn't find a critical firewire cable for the planetary imaging camers - which meant I could NOT use the observatory computer ( Read more... )