ATM Re:

[Berger <berger@mediaone.net>]

Dennis,

What is Slc? and what about the SIAR (1971)   /  IAR (1995) in your SIG?

And what are you the Founder & Lifetime Member of?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Bruce Berger
berger@mediaone.net
member - Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
http://WWW.ATMOB.ORG

At 10:37 PM 7/9/99 -0700, Slc.Dennis Bishop wrote:
>
>  opps, forgot a title. Anyway, after marking the main mirror and
>putting it back in, it was WAY out of alinement. For the next hour I
>working on getting it back in, just before dark I got it almost totaly
>set, couldn't make out the dot anymore. I took it outside and with the
>ONLY eyepice I have I looked towards edwards air force base. I saw
>things over there I'id never found with the 4.25 dob. As I don't have
>a base yet, I sat up two chairs and a stack of paperback books and
>waited for venus. When it was dark enough I got venus, the 3 images
>where gone, BUT it still was not the best, for I had a nice single
>image, but it had like a out of fources 'ghost'(?) image behind the
>main one.
>
> I stayed out and the clouds broke and I scanned the milky way, and to
>me the stars looked very good, I'm not sure if they were totaly in
>fouces, I think they were very close to being pin points. So maybe a
>bit more needs to be done on saturday but it's closer. If I wake up
>in time, I might try forJupiter as last week it was awefull, couldn't
>make out any bands even.
>
>
>
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