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To: Ignatz
Twice the size of mine, but it's on an eq mount.

I should have spent a tad more and got an 8" dob.

It's about 13 above, so I settled for my 63mm binocs.

And the hole in the clouds stayed open for the last 15 minutes before totality.

Saturn's all but washed out.

73 posted on 02/20/2008 7:20:46 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
Twice the size of mine, but it's on an eq mount.

I have a Meade DS-114 on an EQ mount. DS, as in "Department Store". It's crap, but it did get me interested enough to buy the big dob. The "auto goto" never worked right, and now the battery pack is busted. The eq mount doesn't have any manual gears, and the focuser is the older .965" size, so the 'scope is essentially useless. I suppose if if I bought another mount for it it would still be usable. I do have a nice eyepice or two for it, and a set of filters.

Anyway, I'm with you: too cold to drag the big 'scope out to the back yard tonight, so I've been using my big bino's, too.
Beautiful, clear views from Indiana.

83 posted on 02/20/2008 7:35:54 PM PST by Ignatz (I am so jealous of these female teacher sex scandals. Shoot, I didn't even get to bang the erasers!)
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