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Old 13-09-2004, 06:49 PM
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Starkler (Geoff)
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G'day Iceman !

You know of me from your GA rtcw playing days.
Im sure that my nickname here wont leave any doubt as to my identity

I have been into astronomy for about a year and half now, and having the luxury of not having someone to tell me how to spend my pay I have collected the following :

GSO 250mm f5 dobsonian ,just like yours iceman and with the following enhancements:

: Orion RACI 9x50mm finderscope
: tube fully flocked (well almost) with adhesive black velvet from Bunnings.
: teflon azimuth pads and the plastic milk bottle washer trick to improve the azimuth motion.

Digital setting circles composed of encoder kit from Kendrik USA, David Ek decoder box http://home.earthlink.net/~david.ek/digicircles/
and plugged into that is an el-cheapo palm pilot running PalmDSC.
http://palmdsc.dougbraun.com

Other stuff:

Pentax smc XL 10.5mm eyepiece
Pentax smc XL 14mm eyepiece
Teleview Panoptic 27mm eyepiece
Celestron Utima 12.5mm eyepiece
Celestron Ultima 2x barlow
Lumicon UHC filter
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