Re: GT-one and vixen

From: E. Ayres (ngc4244@No-Spam)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 10:01:24 MST

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    Richard,

    Actually up till my surgery I was mainly doing visual
    work as the GT-one was not capable of imaging.
    Normally I do 60% imaging and 40% visual, I really
    enjoy the EP view of the heavens. Now don't laugh at
    my next statement. I have a little meade ETX-60 that
    I got from costco for $99 that I love. I put my 14mm
    Radian in it and observe all night. This thing is a
    real kick and presents really nice views of Large
    objects and small ones alike. I have tried my 19mm
    Panoptic in it but, the field of view is just much to
    large. I even use a deepsky filter in the ETX for
    nebula's and the views are spectacular!!!

    Regards,

    Eric

    --- RichardN22@No-Spam wrote:
    > In a message dated 10/29/01 8:10:36 PM Pacific
    > Standard Time,
    > ngc4244@No-Spam writes:
    >
    >
    > > The Neck is doing better, I should be
    > > ready to go out observing in about 3 weeks. Yea
    > it is
    > > pretty cool having the mount back together.
    > Hopefully
    > > it works. The added bonus though is having the GP
    > w/
    > > GOTO as a light duty mount.
    >
    > Paul Sterngold has a GPDX with skysensor which he
    > loves. Works great with
    > his refractor. You should have lots of fun with
    > yours. Maybe we'll convert
    > you to a visual amateur astronomer yet! :-)
    >
    > Caio,
    >
    > Richard (the curmudgeon) Navarrete
    >

    =====

    Eric Ayres

    37.62N 121.6W

    LX-200 10" ST-7/MX-7C

    Celestron C8

    Vixen GP/102ED

    www.astrograph.net

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