FoxK
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 11/07/07
Posts: 2930
Loc: Cape Cod, MA
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Been too long since i did html etc lol...I can get the pic on there but can't make it linkable to his site...
Another noob question....regarding APO refractors...do they have similar alignment problems such as Dobs etc have with collimation?
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Orion 80mm ED Apo Refractor
8" Classic Dob (used as Newtonian on CG5 mount)
Meade 70-AZ-A 70mm Guider using PHD
LS60TCaK/B600/C
CG-5 Advanced GT Mount
Nikon D40x with T-Adaptors
Philips SPC900NC(1/4"ccd)& Quickcam 9000(1/3"CMOS)
Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS
- click for cloud prediction for Plymouth, MA. area
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RS67Man
Tinker King
Reged: 11/10/07
Posts: 824
Loc: Spanaway, WA USA!
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In the following string remove the @ symbol after the first "url", and the @ symbol after the first "image", then copy and paste to your sig during edit mode. This will give you a clear sky clock of Cape Cod imaging station.
[url@=http://cleardarksky.com/c/CpCdImStMAkey.html][image@]http://cleardarksky.com/c/CpCdImStMAcs0.gif[/image][/url]
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AEACC The Automatic Electric Aluminum Can Crusher thread
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firestar
Born to be Mild
Reged: 10/18/06
Posts: 3942
Loc: Cleveland Ohio USA
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Pm Steph,she'll help you out.
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Eastlake Ohio
Lots of cheap Asian glass  
Antares 12" Dob,Antares 8" Dob
Meade 8" SCT, Celestron C8 SCT
Zhumell 152 mm F8,Antares 127 mm f9.4
Orion short tube 90 F5.6,Celestron 80 ED F7.5
Imaging Source DMK 21AU04 ccd camera
Stellarvue bv3's with 32,26,23,21,9 mm pairs
Olivon 42,35,28mm,siebert 21,12.5,7mm,GSO superview 20mm,Meade swa 13.8mm,Hyperion 13mm
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ClownFish
Post Laureate
Reged: 04/26/05
Posts: 6254
Loc: Baghdad, Iraq
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Someone should write up the difinitive "CSC in your Sig" post and sticky it. This questions pops up every few weeks.
CF
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Learn all about Polar Alignment and Manual Guiding on my website at www.PetesAstrophotography.com! Or visit my Foreign Service Blog!
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novbabies
Postmaster
Reged: 06/05/05
Posts: 15678
Loc: Northern Georgia!
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Pm steph,she'll help you out.
That's ~Steph~ ... 
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Good Seeing!
Mark
Orion 12" XTi f/4.9
VERY old Edmund 6" f/8 reflector
Assorted binoculars
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firestar
Born to be Mild
Reged: 10/18/06
Posts: 3942
Loc: Cleveland Ohio USA
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Now I'm being moderated by members!
 
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Eastlake Ohio
Lots of cheap Asian glass
Antares 12" Dob,Antares 8" Dob
Meade 8" SCT, Celestron C8 SCT
Zhumell 152 mm F8,Antares 127 mm f9.4
Orion short tube 90 F5.6,Celestron 80 ED F7.5
Imaging Source DMK 21AU04 ccd camera
Stellarvue bv3's with 32,26,23,21,9 mm pairs
Olivon 42,35,28mm,siebert 21,12.5,7mm,GSO superview 20mm,Meade swa 13.8mm,Hyperion 13mm
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Protheus
Vaguely offended
Reged: 09/01/07
Posts: 5321
Loc: Illinois, US
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Now I'm being moderated by members!
Neat trick. 
Chris
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"To tread the sharp edge of a sword;
to run on smooth-frozen ice,
one needs no footsteps to follow..."
"Well, people sometimes ask me 'how did you get involved in astronomy?' I said 'I got born, what's your problem?'" -- John Dobson
"In discussing the large-scale structure of the cosmos, astronomers sometimes say that space is curved, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Whatever are they talking about?" -- Carl Sagan
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FoxK
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 11/07/07
Posts: 2930
Loc: Cape Cod, MA
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Someone should write up the difinitive "CSC in your Sig" post and sticky it. This questions pops up every few weeks.
CF
aye...to be honest...looking thru the stickies was the first place I looked Many thanks
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Orion 80mm ED Apo Refractor
8" Classic Dob (used as Newtonian on CG5 mount)
Meade 70-AZ-A 70mm Guider using PHD
LS60TCaK/B600/C
CG-5 Advanced GT Mount
Nikon D40x with T-Adaptors
Philips SPC900NC(1/4"ccd)& Quickcam 9000(1/3"CMOS)
Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS
- click for cloud prediction for Plymouth, MA. area
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stefanj
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 11/15/07
Posts: 1769
Loc: Western New York State
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As for the "problem" with collimation- Well first Reflectors need to be collimated as a matter of procedure- not problem (sorry- don't mean to sound harsh- it just makes it sound like there is a design flaw in the newt that makes it in some way inferior). In that aspect no a refractor does not require collimation. OH BTW after you get your CSS in your sig. it will cause cloudiness for the next 10 days (LMAO)
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Life is a circus- and I'm stuck in the FREAK TENT
If these are blue- it means the moon is full!
Meade ETX 90RA w/ tripod
Meade AZ 70 (now solar)
Meade DS 2130 AT
Zhumell 10" Dob
Simmons 10x50 Binoculars
GLPx8
LPI
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~Steph~
Texas Wildflower
Reged: 06/11/05
Posts: 26279
Loc: North Texas
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Someone should write up the difinitive "CSC in your Sig" post and sticky it. This questions pops up every few weeks.
CF
aye...to be honest...looking thru the stickies was the first place I looked Many thanks
Actually....there *is* a post in the "Best of Beginner's" thread that leads to a thread in Off Topic about how to. Must've *just* missed it. No worries, most people don't read the stickies anyway, so the same questions still come up over and over. 
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Steph
Taking it one day at a time...
I'm in the fight! - Support Liver Disease Awareness
10" RCX400 ~~ 4" TV102 ~~ WO ZS80FD ~~ PST
Serenity Observatory
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FoxK
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 11/07/07
Posts: 2930
Loc: Cape Cod, MA
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Look at my sig I just spent $1500 at Orion so even with the new scope curse....looks like i get a break tonight..perhaps its the hole Santa's coming down through...gives my 4.5" Newtonian a last shot...it deserves it...for a cheapo scope it gave me all this, this month:
1} Looking for mars, but saw the Genesis -1 satellite cross my path IN my scope FOV when i had all the knobs loosened...so I got to watch it across the E-S track at 60x
2} Not a bad first attempt at AP on the moon
3} First good view of Andromeda
I'm giving it to my sister for Xmas so mabey I can drag her here
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Orion 80mm ED Apo Refractor
8" Classic Dob (used as Newtonian on CG5 mount)
Meade 70-AZ-A 70mm Guider using PHD
LS60TCaK/B600/C
CG-5 Advanced GT Mount
Nikon D40x with T-Adaptors
Philips SPC900NC(1/4"ccd)& Quickcam 9000(1/3"CMOS)
Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS
- click for cloud prediction for Plymouth, MA. area
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