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Ay carumba.

Geez. Pimped! But it's their call, I guess...

Visiting fam in Kansas City, so even though it's closed for winter, I thought I'd bop down to the KC club's obsy just to check it out. Hopefully, I can attend an open house when it reopens next spring.

Mmmmmm...donut...

We usually buy whatever we want through the year (within reason), so Christmas lists are usually something like, "Ummm, you want an apple pie or should we go out for bento boxes?"

With the exception of the first half of the night of the last full moon, cloudy, windy, relatively cold, and rain. Every now and then there'll be a tease of clear sky, but it doesn't last long enough to observe anything.

Forecast for the next seven days is more garbage. Yay.

Thunderstorms were supposed to move through the area, but there was a clear bit around 20:00, so I grabbed my ultralight 50mm set-up and stepped out for awhile. After a quick look at Saturn (tiny little thing in that 50), I tried a few phone pics of Mirfak and friends. Haven't transferred them to my ...

Nice! I had a pair of Sears 7x35s, puchased around 1980, but wrecked them. C'est la vie...

Unfortunate name if you Google it looking for the company Web site...

Anyway, anybody ever see / use / buy an Airy Disk refractor? Are they a new ED player or are they a rebrand?

Thanks!

Seems like a good idea to me:

The Best Topology of All!

For the railfans / trainspotters out there:

Better hope that if aliens get here first, they don't subscribe to this viewpoint.

Congrats on the successful first light, Olen! This is quite capable little mount. The stock tripod is shaky though, but should be OK for 60-80mm range.


I bought just the head from FLO in the UK. I run it on my Innorel RT90C or my geared-column Sirui Hooby-dooby (forgot the model number). Both ...