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Gutross

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  1. n you canon for not supporting win 7 and later O_o

  2. scored a Rebel EOS XT with two lenses, battery.... hell everything that came with it originally including a nice case! for 100 bucks! works perfectly fine and looks barely used!

     

  3. around christmas my buddy bought me fairly beaten up scope. he thought if the scope was junk that we would be able to use the tripod and mount since it was a 114mm scope. same as the celestron we use. well he was right, the mount and tripod were real solid, the scope on the other hand would be better used as a makeup aplication mirror. see it has a flimsy plastic focuser that looks like it would break if i decided to grip it. well now i have two ways i can set up the celestron, if i have...

  4. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! if your a corperation, DONT HIRE people just out of school and throw them into a Backoffice software and tell em to figure it out,,, I AM ACOUTABLE at my store level for their mistakes BS how hard is it to realize you cant change your ramped inventory in the past, JUST DO a single djustment

  5. well my wife came to me with an interesting question. for starters she wants to do pendants to sell. and she saw some with pictures of photoshop generated celestial bodies, and thought i could get a scope/camera/filters to be able to do actual pictures on the pendants and sell prints, hmm interesting thoughts for sure! TAX WRITE OFF haha

  6. been inactive for abit. my assistant quit, i trained another District Manager on our Paperwork procedures, helping another store that only has one employee, sigh

  7. venus and the moon were amazing this morning

  8. thanks webMD because of you i now know i have one primary symptom of parkinsons and almost a dozen of teh secondary symptoms

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    2. Stargazer33

      Stargazer33

      If you've got genuine concerns, make an appointment at your GPs. Never self diagnose from the internet and definitely don't self medicate.

    3. Gutross

      Gutross

      oh i understand that, im not saying i have parkinsons, but i will be focusing on losing weight and getting better fit, then if the issues are still present, hit up a chiropractor to align and inspect disks that could cause a pinch

    4. ronin

      ronin

      Find out first if it is a pinched nerve, then get the exercise that may or will alieviate the problem. Better to do the right exercise from the outset.

  9. im beginning to twitch, i think i need a clear night asap!

  10. Tonight, Clear! Seeing:below average, Transparancy:very poor/poor, Humidity:65-80%. I dont ahve dew heaters so is it even worth setting up?

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    2. dlockyer

      dlockyer

      Definitely worth setting up!

    3. Gutross

      Gutross

      would a hair dryer work.. at that humidity its bound to dew up pretty darn quick

    4. Pig

      Pig

      Fantastic seeing here:-)

  11. you can almost read the numbers on the plane, amazing!
  12. well ima blumming idiot,. of course the day after my birthday ( unofficial national be depressed day ) i screw up, and set a gas pump for 90 instead of 9. guess what the kid did when he realized i screwed up. he topped off his tank to 45 dollars then left

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    2. Gutross

      Gutross

      ouch thats 140 dollars here

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      yer mate most of it is tax, it was a lot higher but it come down a bit lately.

    4. Pig

      Pig

      I cant believe that diesel is cheaper than unleaded... Its been a few years since that has happened

  13. Happy birthday to me! Keeping with tradition I wake up feeling like crud, atliest the last 5 years i was sick this time i hope its only alergies.

    1. Gutross

      Gutross

      spending pretty much the entire day at work....... perfect birthday. but when i get home at 4-5 pm ill bake my cake and try to enjoy some family time, perhaps on minecraft

    2. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      happy birthday mate and may you have many more....

    3. orion25

      orion25

      Happy b'day, my friend. Feel better, soon

  14. Yes! Prime Focus achieved with a Bird Jones scope!

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    2. Gutross

      Gutross

      no, using the colomation screws i moved the mirror as far up the tube as possible, i am certain if i di anymore the primary would just fall off. I need to get some longer lock screws to make it fixed in place. but it led to many more questions and concerns which i brought up in this post my biggest issue is tracking. and the lack of knowledge to change the tracking speed to suit planatary movement

    3. Gutross

      Gutross

      oh and i have an image of saturn i captured quickly

    4. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      glad to hear you got around chopping the tube, cant help you with the tracking mate,there must be away to work round it...

  15. being a member of the forum i have came across two big problems. 1. everything in the classifieds is across the pond 2. i see an amazing deal on a camera that the shipping would be outragous. 3. I am always broke looking at shiny things :P

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    2. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      thats a nice scope you have picked ,it will soon pay you back in kind....

    3. Alien 13

      Alien 13

      I like shiny things too but a few mistakes along the way so not that many unfortunately

    4. Gutross

      Gutross

      it was very hard to find a scope that would last me years and allow me to branch into AP as well as enjoy visual. with the bonus of being transportable

  16. i am amazed at people, ive been looking up DSLR's that may have issues with them that will not affect astrophotography at all. people are asking RETAIL price for them. i dont mean the boby only retail option. im talking the KIT retail. its crazy

    1. Coco

      Coco

      cameras in general are not abundant second hand, Ive been looking for a Sony A6000 second hand and so far failed to snag one.

  17. Stoked! Thanks to Peter for telling me about Carte du Ciel and ASCOM. once installed it connected to the scope with out issue. and just testing it out inside it apeared to move to the correct areas. im not sure about the sync function, but i think i can use it to refine the alignment, thank you again!

    1. Gutross

      Gutross

      after 20-30 minutes of everything being slightly off in the same direction, i just fiddled with a couple options and BAM! in the ep every time! just a shame my eyes kept getting messed with by passing cars, or i might have been able to see some fuzzies. i did try on several. but failed to be able to make them out

  18. there are times i love my job, but when it means taking mmoney out of my employees pockets to satasfy new policys I get rather depresssed

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    2. xtreemchaos
    3. Gutross

      Gutross

      i dont even know how to concider who is the weakest, one gets real flirty/talky with any customer of the female pursuasion, another has difficulties keeping up on task ( though he is my most senior employee) and the other is new, slow on the transactions but promissing. how can someone decide who to let go. Do i follow the OLD saying Last in First out, or do i weigh in on all aspects. perhaps a performance review is needed and let the broad picture, in relation to what is required be the dec...

    4. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      i would allway go with the Last in First out approach,but its hard,but its just part of being management, goodluck mate.

  19. storms tornados, torential rains, followed by 6 days of ok weather, tomorrow? Huricane! COME ON! Mother nature you can stop now

  20. going to try out my DIY afocal camera mount tonight if the clouds dont roll in that is

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      it looks like its going to work good from the photos.

    2. Gutross

      Gutross

      it worked pretty good, i think i have to refine the settings to be able to get better pictures, I will clean them up some today and post them some time this afternoon. got a clear picture of Saturn nothing like what i see others do, but for a point and shoot! i was happy

    3. Gutross

      Gutross

      i have a couple pictures that i took located at

  21. so i guess building somthing astro related brings the same cloudy curse http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/246260-guessing-game/

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      because you made it yourself the curse dont count it may make them go away.

  22. YAY Vacation was approved! hope its not cloudy in two weeks!

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    2. Gutross

      Gutross

      I am a Store Manager for a Gas Station, 10 hour days 6 days a week, "on Call" 24/7 and stressed the hell out, the company i work for specilizes in buying lower profit store that other corperations shed every so often to make their profit margin and and average daily sales increase with out actually doing so, making investors more money and happier. my company then upgrades the existing systems as nescessary trims the shrink by paying the employees less than most companies, and has the...

    3. Gutross

      Gutross

      current employees "sold" with the store where they are systematically replaced by friends and family to further reduce their overhead. to sum it up i dont know if i iwll come in tomorrow with the new owners ready for me to train them on how to run their new purchase

    4. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      stress is a killer,my grandfather told me when i was in my 20s" what can happen, may happen and may never happen and theres now point worrying about it untill it happens. wise words from a old man,i didnt realize what he ment untill he had died years later. we are small cogs in a very large machine.

  23. If the ISS sits at 330km and moves @7.7km/sec that would that not mean an object at 150km moving 7.8km/sec would aprear to move much faster as it is less than half the distance away?
  24. Not astronomy realated But im so irrated at TP-Link right now, their customer service is rubbish.

  25. Very nice thank you, seems i impulse bought an astromaster kit that works just perfectly with the scope i have!
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