[AZ-Observing] Re: I admit it, the clouds are my fault

Steve, you must have disassembled the whole thing because the forecast calls 
for several clear days with "abundant sunshine on Monday!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] I admit it, the clouds are my fault


> Ok, I have a "new" telescope and it is now all ready to go.
>
>
> I bought a Nexstar 8 GPS in the fork mount with the money I got from 
> selling
> the 9.25 inch SCT on the Advanced German Equatorial mount.  I am very 
> happy
> with my purchase and last night I spent two hours getting it drift aligned
> to the North Celestial Pole. A boring, but necessary, accomplishment.  So,
> now it is all set, balanced, aligned, collimated and ready to go.  I even
> cleaned my eyepieces and got one new one at Starizona.
>
>
>
> Of course, that means that it will stop this drought soon because it will
> start raining flaming frogs onto my observatory in Moon Valley.
>
>
>
> I did get in a little imaging with the ToUCam earlier in the week and I 
> will
> show a couple of minutes of what I have gotten so far at the SAC meeting
> tomorrow.  This is assuming that any of us can get to the meeting place
> while driving through the typhoon that will hit Phoenix in the next few
> hours.
>
>
>
> Regardless of all this, it is nice having a telescope that has the exact
> same hand paddle and command structure in both the "portable" Nexstar 11 
> and
> the 8 incher in the backyard roll off roof observatory.  That way, I don't
> have to remember two different sets of control commands to two different
> telescopes.  KISS.
>
>
>
> Hope to see you tomorrow night;
>
> Steve Coe
>
>
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