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    • Still thinking about giving the gift of science to your favourite pagan, humanist, or otherwise interesting person? Decided to wait until you reached the critical “five days before the holiday” window? Then you’ve come to the right place. I work in a science store… I can help. What follows …

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    • … change, ‘cos the new news feed keeps messing with my head, Please don’t make me switch, ‘cos I’ll just go back to Myspace instead, Yes I’ll just go back to Bebo instead, Although first I’ll post on the “One Million Against The New Facebook Layout” thread. dobsonian telescope …

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    • … incredibly smart, and definitely takes after her mother’s craziness. She’s one of the true bright spots in my life. I decided recently to start the process of becoming Jewish. I’m even celebrating Hanukkah this year! I think I’ve always been searching for something better than what I was taught …

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    • Tonight I had a go at star testing my XT10i telescope to check the collimation and optics. There was a full moon tonight, transparency was not particularly good and only the brighter stars were properly visible, so there wasn’t much point in trying to see much else, and instead I figured better use …

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    • … I started so many, many years, ago. I remember of dreaming of the day when I could upgrade from my cheap 60mm refractor telescope to a larger reflector telescope. Of course, the Celestron Astromaster 130 EQ telescope was not available, back then. Nor was any Dobsonian, such as the 8″ Meade …

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    • Here we have another Photoshop sketch, this time of M42, the Orion Nebula. This sketch shows closely what I see through my 10″ Zhumell Dobsonian from Ashtabula, OH. This image was made using a photograph of M42, and then manipulated to sketch a view as through a modest amateur telescope …

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    • Hey hey! I’m pleased as punch. I’ve taken a picture of M42 The Great Orion Nebula showing the Trapezium stars using my Orion Skyquest XT10i telescope. “Yeah, so what, loads of people take photos of the Orion Nebula with their scopes”, you say. Aha, but how many people attempt it with a Dobsonian …

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    • … special offers and items that are popular. Different types of telescopes - reflecting, refracting, newtonian, norwegian, dobsonian, cassegrain, catadioptric and maksutov. Some popular brands such as Galileo (what a name?), skywatcher, ferrari (???), vixen, and more… Looks like brand names are little …

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    • What’s Up Astronomy has an excellent professional’s take on buying a telescope for someone for Christmas: Lots of people will be out shopping for telescopes in the next few days and weeks. Here are my “Ten Tips” for getting the best value in a beginner telescope that will inspire a lifetime passion …

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    • … they would like to get it back, if possible. For that to occur, they would need to locate them and apparently, that is a real possibility. The tool bag has already been spotted by an astronomer. I am not sure, what kind of telescope the astronomer was using. It may have been one of the dobsonian …




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