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epee
professor emeritus
Reged: 11/30/06
Posts: 582
Loc: Suh-van-nuh, Jaw-juh
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Some very nice charts are free for the download. Search the Cloudy Night site using the search on the home page.
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Jim Girardeau
Orion XT12 Intelliscope
Celestron 11X80mm binoculars
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JoeF
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 03/18/05
Posts: 1112
Loc: 'Sunny Loftus' - N E England
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A notebook for keeping a log. Doesn't matter how you organise it to begin with, free form notes and the odd sketch are fine to start out. It will help you focus and if you do take up the habit you will regret it if you didn't make some record of your first outings.
Joe
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Orion Optics 200mm f6 & Accufocus on GP/E Mount
Opticron BGA 10x50 Binos
NELM 5.2 rural skies
Under tripod canine footwarmer
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tedbnh
super member
Reged: 11/14/07
Posts: 197
Loc: New Hampshire
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I had the "Starbound" chair for six months, finally sold it because it had a tendency for the seat to slip all the way to the ground just from moving the chair around a bit. I was worried I would sit down and end up on the ground, or worse that a member of the public at a star watch would have the same thing happen to them.
I now have the 'Stardust' chair which has rungs. Solid as a rock and no chance of slipping. I love it.
If the "Starbound" chair had a little spring under the seat to keep it tight against the slide bars, it would not slip and then having infinite adjustability would be a plus.
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Ted
Hampton Beach, NH:
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WO Zenithstar 80 ED 545/6.8
Orion XT8i with COL 1200/5.9
WO Zenithstar 110 ED 770/7.0
iOptron Minitower
Hyperion 13mm, 5mm
TV 24mm Pan, 35mm Pan
UO 9mm Ortho
TV 2x Barlow
Oberwerk 20x80
Stardust observing chair
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JT5
sage
Reged: 11/08/07
Posts: 271
Loc: Ozarks of Missouri
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A good adjustable chair for a DOB is a must. I have a catsperch observing chair that I bought unfinished. They are available as kits or simple plans. There is also other wood chair plans you can find on the internet built mostly from 2X4s. For the DOB the first must have is a good collimator. I use a Laser Collimator I bought with my DOB and it is relatively easy to do.
John
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My wife shares my love of the night skies and tolerates all of my other hobbies.
Televue Pronto
Meade 2045D
Meade ETX-125PE
Meade 12" Lightbridge
Meade, Swan and Televue Lenses (33, 26, 20, 15 & 9mm), Televue Barlow
Catsperch Observing Chair
Member: Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
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star drop
Guilty as Charged
Reged: 02/02/08
Posts: 3288
Loc: Cattaraugus Co., NY
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I wear my led headlight hanging around my neck like a medallion. That way it does not bump into my eyepieces.
Oh yes. The hard part is climbing the ladder with the headlight attached to the car. 
LED headlight? 
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Ted
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scopethis
sage
Reged: 05/30/08
Posts: 239
Loc: Kingman, Ks
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A notebook for keeping a log. Doesn't matter how you organise it to begin with, free form notes and the odd sketch are fine to start out. It will help you focus and if you do take up the habit you will regret it if you didn't make some record of your first outings.
Yes yes yes for the notebook. A simple clipboard w/3 hole notebook paper will do for starters. One of the great things about notes is that in the future of the hobby they will keep you from searching for an object that you've already seen. 
Joe
Edit Note: I just fixed the quote box so it didn't contain the entire post. No big deal. 
Edited by dgs© (08/29/08 11:45 PM)
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