desertstars
Reged: 11/05/03
Posts: 41911
Loc: Tucson, AZ
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It's never too late to go Loonie! 
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Thomas Watson
Author of Mr. Olcott's Skies. Available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
@desertstarsbks
Under Desert StarsEither Way, It's Reading
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summitlake
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 09/05/03
Posts: 884
Loc: Castro Valley CA
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- Opportunity knocks for observation of the Moon for most of every month, not for a fraction of a year depending on the hemisphere of the observer.
- There's almost no such thing as choosing a wrong eyepiece for observing the Moon. Every vantagepoint is an adventure.
- After an evening of peering at gossamer DSO's, it is always a great pleasure to observe the Moon.
- Humankind has been studying the Moon for 40,000 years. Never commonplace, like a favorite uncle, the Moon is always there.
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Alex
Meade LX90 8" SCT
Orion 127mm Mak
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Anonymous
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- It throws enough light to help me find the things I drop on the ground when I'm looking for DSO's.
Steve
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It helps me align my Telrad.
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desertstars
Reged: 11/05/03
Posts: 41911
Loc: Tucson, AZ
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Hey, Warped, does Tina know you've been hanging out with us Loonies? 
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Thomas Watson
Author of Mr. Olcott's Skies. Available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
@desertstarsbks
Under Desert StarsEither Way, It's Reading
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gwferguson
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Reged: 05/11/04
Posts: 20
Loc: Richmond, VA
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Reasons to observe the moon? Well, as I found out tonight, it impresses the heck out of drunken college students who will then offer free drinks and nachos!
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Orion SkyView Pro 6LT EQ Reflector
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Hey, Warped, does Tina know you've been hanging out with us Loonies?
Tina even looked at the moon a couple of weeks ago!
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Echo
Post Laureate
Reged: 09/29/03
Posts: 3320
Loc: So Cal
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Only to check out my new eyepiece and it dang near blinded me. Nuke the moon!
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Queen of GOTO
Life is short.... get a massage!
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Nuke the moon!
No No No! that would only result in a RING which would be far, far worse... 
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desertstars
Reged: 11/05/03
Posts: 41911
Loc: Tucson, AZ
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Thomas Watson
Author of Mr. Olcott's Skies. Available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
@desertstarsbks
Under Desert StarsEither Way, It's Reading
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Bill Grass
Prince Regent
Reged: 10/07/03
Posts: 11665
Loc: Baton Rouge, LA
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Blind-Cyclops
sage
Reged: 11/28/05
Posts: 489
Loc: Kitchener, ON, Canada
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The ONLY night-time celestial object
for which it is sooo cool to wear
polarized "Moon Glasses" when observing.
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Clear skies...
Duncan 
"Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!"
-- Closing line in movie spoken by newspaper report Ned "Scotty" Scott (Douglas Spencer) in the Sci-Fi movie
"The Thing From Another World", RKO Radio Pictures, 1951.
Antares (refractor) 127mm f/6.45. w/2-spd Crayford
Orion (Maksutov) 150mm f/12 w/2" EP adapter
Giro 3 (twin), 18" pier, EQ5 tripod.
Garrett 20x80mm, 410 head, 055 tripod.
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Tim2723
The Moon Guy
Reged: 02/19/04
Posts: 5762
Loc: Northern New Jersey
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Gosh Duncan, it must be really cold in Canada for you to have dug up this old thing! Was this really four years ago?!
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Intes MK-66 Deluxe (6" f/12 Maksutov)
Celestron C-102HD (4" f/10 achromat)
Celestron C-102AZ (4" f/5 achromat)
Orion 6LT (6" f/8 classic Newtonian)
Orion Apex 90 (90mm Mak spotter/grab-n-go/little fun scope)
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