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Roger,<BR>
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I feel your pain! I spent most of the morning working on my own notes!<BR>
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Fred<BR>
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From: drivester@hotmail.com<BR>To: lvas@lvlug.org<BR>Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:42:22 +0000<BR>Subject: Re: [Lvas] Few more pics<BR><BR>
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Fred.<BR> <BR>A 4-inch Unitron was large indeed. Mallas had a mechanical weight driven clock drive in a massive bell shaped pier. I have never looked through one. <BR> <BR>Skiff and Luginbuhl could also see the dark region easily in a 60mm refractor from a rooftop observing platform atop the chemistry building on the Northern Arizona University campus in Flagstaff at 35°.2. This is almost identical to my latitude here in Boiling Springs NC.<BR> <BR>My notes indicate that I have never observed M-64 with my 4-inch. I will put this on my list.<BR>Another observing challenge.<BR> <BR>Fred, I will not have my notes on the Virgo cluster complete until tomorrow or Tuesday. Will this be Ok? All of this observing and staying out till 2 or 3:00 AM has got me behind, and tired. <BR> <BR>I have got to get in the bed after last night.<BR> <BR>Roger <BR> <BR><BR> <BR><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT face=Verdana><EM><STRONG> I</STRONG> can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. Abraham Lincoln</EM></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR>
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From: rayworth1969@hotmail.com<BR>To: lvas@lvlug.org<BR>Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:22:51 -0500<BR>Subject: Re: [Lvas] Few more pics<BR><BR>
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Roger,<BR> <BR>I can understand how Mr. Mallas saw the dark region back then. Light pollution was not near what it is now. I also suspect his optics were much better in that Unitron. I remember that 4" monster being a hit or miss thing, especially for the price back then. However, most I looked through (3, I think) had very decent optics and with the f/15, those lenses didn't have to be all that thick. Correction was also much better. I'd heard from a couple of people that there were a few crap scopes out there, but not that often.<BR> <BR>The Unitron 4" is an absolute monster and is mainly an observatory scope. I remember some of them were bristling with five or six finders and guide scopes that were pretty much useless!<BR> <BR>Fred<BR> <BR> <BR><BR> <BR>
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From: drivester@hotmail.com<BR>To: lvas@lvlug.org<BR>Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:11:02 +0000<BR>Subject: Re: [Lvas] Few more pics<BR><BR>
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Jay and Annette,<BR> <BR>I am certainly enjoying your images. M-64 is especially interesting to me as on nights of less than excellent seeing I cannot see the dark region with my 10-inch.<BR> <BR>John Mallas of the <EM>Messier Album "</EM>could see the dark region with a 60mm refractor and found it easy in his 4-inch Unitron f/15 refractor but subdewed in an 8-inch". (1958-1962)<BR> <BR> <BR>Roger Ivester <BR> <BR> <BR><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT face=Verdana><EM><STRONG> I</STRONG> can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. Abraham Lincoln</EM></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR>> From: AJSnyder@cox.net<BR>> To: Lvas@lvlug.org<BR>> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:43:00 -0700<BR>> Subject: [Lvas] Few more pics<BR>> <BR>> Here are a few more from the night. Jason<BR>> <BR>> Black eye Nebula, Eagle Nebula, and Dumb Bell Nebula<BR>> <BR><BR>
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