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Old 06-06-2015, 12:02 PM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Love these comparisons Mike. You were in the right place at the right time to have access to the facilities and people by sounds of it - and made damn good use of your time.
Local secondary colleges here in the ACT had access to the old 9" Oddie refractor as did members of the Canberra Astronomical Society, both of which covered me at the time. The Celestron 5, cold camera, fridge compressor (vacuum pump) etc were all ours, we just used the Oddie as the tracking platform, which wasn't all that accurate in fact and required attentive hand guiding via curtain like pull cords to re position the guide star

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Can't help but suspect you had just as much awe and excitement when you saw the blurry expose of a distant galaxy 31 years ago versus that recent splendid rendition?
Yep, you are totally right...although I have had lots of eye time processing Centaurus A now of course

Mike
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