~Steph~
Texas Wildflower
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Pictures!  So John, that IS you in Jeff's 5th pic, isn't it? Looks like you and your set-up. Wow, and neither you nor Gary took your 20" dobs? Shocker!
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Steph
Taking it one day at a time...
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jrcrilly
Refractor wienie no more
Reged: 04/30/03
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Loc: NE Ohio
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So John, that IS you in Jeff's 5th pic, isn't it?
Wow - there I am! I only looked for myself in the food photos...
Gary's 20" remained in the trailer while mine remained at home (limited Jeep capacity).
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John C
Battle Cry of Reno
http://www.wadsworthobservatory.com
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half meter
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Reged: 05/05/04
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Loc: Great Lakes
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I was determined to bring the 6" A&M APO out from under the shadow of the 20" Obsession... 
Actually, I did not feel aperture-challenged at all because I finally got to use my Collins I3 eyepiece with a brand new narrow-band 13nm Astronomik H-alpha filter. WOW! After several of us got to see a great view of the Horsehead Nebula in a 6" scope, I really didn't feel the need to set up the 20".
Update: the 30" Obsession on order is now due in November!
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Gary
Collins I3 (Thin Film) Image Intensifying Eyepiece
Coronado Maxscope Double Stacked 90mm <0.5A w/BF30
6" f/8 TMB/A&M Carbon Fiber APO; f/5 with 4" Borg ED Field Flattener/Reducer
8" f/5.6 Starmaster Versa V8/Zambuto Mirror/ServoCat Jr dob
30" f/4.5 Obsession/OMI Mirror/ServoCat/Argo Navis dob
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PJ Anway
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: North Coast
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I understand. The view of the horsehead through the I3/13nm and the view of M42 without were fabulous! Thanks Gary.
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Clear Skies,
PJ
http://doublestarobserver.com
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half meter
Postmaster
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Loc: Great Lakes
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Good to see you again PJ!
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Gary
Collins I3 (Thin Film) Image Intensifying Eyepiece
Coronado Maxscope Double Stacked 90mm <0.5A w/BF30
6" f/8 TMB/A&M Carbon Fiber APO; f/5 with 4" Borg ED Field Flattener/Reducer
8" f/5.6 Starmaster Versa V8/Zambuto Mirror/ServoCat Jr dob
30" f/4.5 Obsession/OMI Mirror/ServoCat/Argo Navis dob
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droid
rocketman
Reged: 08/29/04
Posts: 6251
Loc: ohio
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Looks like a good time was had bye all. I wanted to come but alas , work and CFO, wouldnt allow it.
Gary....I see your sig line is down to one scope???? the 30inch.
Youve still got the 15 inch dont you?
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Andy Miller
Jason Hissong built 16" f/4.5 " Elekta"
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half meter
Postmaster
Reged: 05/05/04
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Loc: Great Lakes
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Yup, still have the 15" and a bunch of others that I've collected over the years. They show up in my sig line from time to time...
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Gary
Collins I3 (Thin Film) Image Intensifying Eyepiece
Coronado Maxscope Double Stacked 90mm <0.5A w/BF30
6" f/8 TMB/A&M Carbon Fiber APO; f/5 with 4" Borg ED Field Flattener/Reducer
8" f/5.6 Starmaster Versa V8/Zambuto Mirror/ServoCat Jr dob
30" f/4.5 Obsession/OMI Mirror/ServoCat/Argo Navis dob
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JimMo
I'd Rather Do It Myself
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Loc: Under the SE Michigan lightdom...
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Wow,
I just found this thread. By all the pictures I've seen it sure looks like everyone had a great time. There's always next year, hopefully I'll be able to get away from work by then. 
BTW even though I wasn't there looks like my 10" dob made the gaze with Dave Lacko, I noticed it in the pic of his 18" Obsession clone. 
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Jim M.
Ford Amateur Astronomy Club
Homemade 14.5" f4.3 Truss Dobsonian
TV85
Lunt LS60THa
Meade LX80 mount
Astrotech Voyager alt/az mount
"I'd like to remind you at four in the morning my world is very still,
The air is fresh under diamond skies, makes me glad to be alive." Randy Bachmann "Blue Collar"
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MRoedel
professor emeritus
Reged: 11/10/06
Posts: 647
Loc: Michigan
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I kind of like this one. The two big white scopes are John Crilly's.
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Mike Roedel
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
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stevek
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 04/16/06
Posts: 1310
Loc: west michigan
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Oh My Gosh!!! I wanted to go to this SO BAD!!! It's been on my calender since BEOTS...but then work got so darned busy - FINALLY. I ended up working 30 hrs over the GLSG weekend and missed the big event. Only good thing is that I made $$$ I usually make over an entire month - and it needed to be done. And now I see i missed all my BEOTS/CN friends who were lucky enough to go. I SO wanted to drag out M31 thru J Crilly's big DOB - I have even dreamed of it....and now I see it in one of the pics.... I blew it  . And you Mike... you slept??? I thought 'sleep was overrated'!  .... anyway, sorry I missed you all there...
Steve
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DSO 8" f6 DOB w/ 8x50 RACI & 2"Crayford
1958 Sears Discoverer 76mm Refractor
GSO SV 30mm 2",21mm Hyp,13mm Strat,BO/TMB 6mm&4mm
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tvoydan
sage
Reged: 09/21/05
Posts: 252
Loc: Metro Detroit
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Jim,
That's my 20" f5 Obsession clone and Dave's 18" in the background 4th pic down. The black tube dob is my niece's 8" Zhumell I bought her.
Tom
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darklighteditor
Theatre King
Reged: 11/07/06
Posts: 5571
Loc: Land of Sparty
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Steve - Don't feel bad, I had to miss it too due to work obligations and I only live about an hour and a half away...
It's on my calendar for next year though...
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John
8" f/6 DBA Dob
"I am not the editor of a newspaper. And I shall always try to do right and be good, so that God will not make me one." - Mark Twain
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