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June 5th, Transit of Venus

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Celestron 9.25 V Explore Scientific AR152

I've had the AR152 up for sale since I got the C9.25 reasoning that The C9.25 should be able to do everything the Refractor can do and with more aperture. But I never had the chance to put them head to head. The SCT can operate at F/10 with a focal length of 2350 mm - a nice long focal length for planets. With the reducer lens it can operate at F/6.3 an effective focal length of 1480 mm - getting down to reasonably low power for wide field cruising. I had over spent the scope budget last year a
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Table Mountain Star Party 2012 (Washington USA)

Just back from The Table Mountain Star Party in Central Washington. It was our first star party proper (overnight) - and our astro pal Neil had persuaded us we were ready for the big one - all night under the stars with some serious astronomers ... He also persuaded us with stories of buying hot dogs at 1.00 am ... There would be caterers and scope gear vendors all there too. We couldn't find an RV for rent - they were rented out months in advance so we settled on a mini van. It was a Kia Se
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Venus Transit - Pics From Canada's RASC

The RASC here in Canada put together a web page showing highlights of everyone's efforts - all across the country - to see the 2012 Transit of Venus. My own blog is included there (with the transit cake). http://rasc.ca/transit-2012-results It's the first event I can remember where it seems everyone was observing the same thing at the same time from coast to coast. I have to mention that it seems like the whole country got to see the transit except BC which is normally the shangrila of good we
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