The post whore thread.

[bogie]

i like a creepy movie once in a while

I watched Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 about a month ago.

[bogie]

hey buffalobo, now that i'm back at work and looking at the sky, that is definitely venus you saw.

Do you guys even have a physical eyepiece anymore? Or is it all instruments, CCDs, etc attached to the scope?

[roberth]

I watched Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 about a month ago.

i haven't seen either one

[bogie]

Netflix has both of them on streaming. Pretty hokey, but funny too.

[roberth]

i'm waiting on netflix to get the last season of breaking bad then i'll sign up again

[BuffCyclist]

Do you guys even have a physical eyepiece anymore? Or is it all instruments, CCDs, etc attached to the scope?

We have a physical eyepiece for our 3.5m telescope, but we only put it on for special occasions (open houses, visiting classes, visiting scientists etc). I've seen some APOLLO landing sights on the moon with it, and Saturn (you can count the rings with the 3.5m eyepiece), and jupiter among others.

But yes, my telescope is all CCDs. One of our instruments is actually using 3 NIR CCD chips that were rejected by the James Webb Space Telescope because they had too many defects. They work perfectly for us though, but to be put in space, they wanted perfect chips.

[buffalobo]

hey buffalobo, now that i'm back at work and looking at the sky, that is definitely venus you saw.

Damn glad, am afraid Jack is old and will die and no one will answer my astronomy questions.

[buffalobo]

We have a physical eyepiece for our 3.5m telescope, but we only put it on for special occasions (open houses, visiting classes, visiting scientists etc). I've seen some APOLLO landing sights on the moon with it, and Saturn (you can count the rings with the 3.5m eyepiece), and jupiter among others.

But yes, my telescope is all CCDs. One of our instruments is actually using 3 NIR CCD chips that were rejected by the James Webb Space Telescope because they had too many defects. They work perfectly for us though, but to be put in space, they wanted perfect chips.

Would be cool to check it out someday. Or the new one when you get it built.

[BuffCyclist]

Yup, well the new one i'm building is an instrument (starting maybe next fall), in the coming year though, i'll be building all of hte hardware to go between the telescope and the instrument (that isn't built yet) lol.

[TheBelly]

The show 'beyond scared straight' is on. It makes me sad for the future of the earth.