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12-02-2013, 06:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: all over the shop...
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People, give me an idea on How it compares to Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000' Uranometria or José Torres' Tri Atlas?
I'm thinking in regards to limiting mag, amount of details etc
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12-02-2013, 07:42 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
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Not having looked at either I can't answer that, but can tell you that there are two sample maps on the website.
I printed them both on A3 to have a look before purchasing and they were too small 
The atlas uses A2.
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12-02-2013, 08:29 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Brisbane
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Mine arrived today. Weighs a lot and not something to take to the scope but something to plan a good nights viewing at leisure. Very pleased with it.
Allan
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12-02-2013, 10:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Central Coast NSW
Posts: 1,267
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrB
The atlas uses A2.
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Apparently, the pages are actually A1, open face.
That is a seriously large lot of information.
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12-02-2013, 11:19 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
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Mine is most definitely A2 open, A3 when folded in the binder.
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15-02-2013, 08:26 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Tungkillo, South Australia
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They are obviously still available as I just got the email, with tracking #, saying mine has been shipped. 
Charles
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15-02-2013, 12:44 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Brisbane
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After getting my atlas my recommendation is get at least 3 packets of the AVERY transparent plastic reinforcements for the eyelets (500 per packet) and place then on the sheets. Very theraputic but essential. And while you are doing that re-arrange the pages so that the South celestial pole is at the front ie rearrange all the map order because if you dont you will be continuously flipping through the Northern Hemisphere to get to what you want to see.
Allan
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15-02-2013, 05:08 PM
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Ageing badly.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cloudy, light-polluted Bribie Is.
Posts: 3,762
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cfranks
They are obviously still available as I just got the email, with tracking #, saying mine has been shipped.
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The web site is still offering the 'economic postage' rate for US$99.00. I've ordered one. Looks like they're still there. But crikey the economic rate for postage has the amazing estimated delivery time of 3 months. They'd have to put it in a bottle and toss it off a pier for that sort of delay. Given that the author is in Poland, that might be a tad difficult though. Perhaps carrier pigeons?
Peter
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15-02-2013, 07:09 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: perth w.a.
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ordered one on wednesday.... he said he had 14 left
pat
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16-02-2013, 08:16 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pmrid
They'd have to put it in a bottle and toss it off a pier for that sort of delay. Given that the author is in Poland, that might be a tad difficult though.
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Why? Poland has a coastline. And that's exactly what they will do ... it's called surface mail, ie. it will come by ship. I imagine the Polish postal service has a container somewhere on a wharf. When it's full it gets put on a ship
In the early days of amazon.de (the german branch of amazon.com) I regularly waited 2+ months for my orders to be delivered, because the only shipping option they offered back then for outside Europe/US that didn't cost an arm and a leg was surface mail.
Last edited by slt; 16-02-2013 at 08:27 AM.
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16-02-2013, 02:01 PM
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Ageing badly.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cloudy, light-polluted Bribie Is.
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Originally Posted by slt
Why? Poland has a coastline. l.
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I should have remembered that. Who can forget the shipyards at Gdansk and the courage of Lech Walesa, Solidarity and the workers who stared down a government and won.
Peter
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09-05-2013, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Sydney
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Anyone who ordered theirs back in February received it yet? It's just about 3 months now...
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10-05-2013, 03:44 PM
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Ageing badly.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cloudy, light-polluted Bribie Is.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by slt
Anyone who ordered theirs back in February received it yet? It's just about 3 months now...
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Nope. Not yet. I keep hoping that today will be the day. But the days just keep on sliding by.
Peter
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10-05-2013, 08:36 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pmrid
But the days just keep on sliding by.
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lol I know that feeling...
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10-05-2013, 10:48 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Tungkillo, South Australia
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I just checked my tracking # and the last entry was 15/2 so it must be still on a ship somewhere. Says it weighs 6.7Kg!!
Charles
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21-05-2013, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Sydney
Posts: 52
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Mine was in the mail today
It's massive 
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21-05-2013, 09:32 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Lithgow, NSW
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These are great books, I have a set.
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21-05-2013, 10:57 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Tungkillo, South Australia
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Mine arrived yesterday. Now I have to get some reinforcing rings to protect the sheets.
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22-05-2013, 09:35 AM
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#6363
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Central Coast NSW
Posts: 1,267
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Mine just arrived. Poor old postal staffer was not impressed at the weight of the thing. I sure was!
I grabbed some reinforcements when I placed the order, so I'm all ready to go!
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