Monday, August 26, 2013

Cheap Astronomy – Things That Are Free: Meteoblue's "Astronomical Seeing" Prediction

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When I prepared myself for the Triple Conjuction, I had to drive to another site – so I wanted to know beforehand how the weather would be, ...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Cheap Astronomy – Put Some Flock On Your Barlows!

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I would have wanted to look at the Moon tonight, but the clouds are prohibitive today. So I played a bit around with an artificial target I ...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Effective Spy?

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Adam Curtin: BUGGER … The spy world became a fascinating other universe that was full of layer upon layer of deception, where the men who...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Cheap Astronomy – Blast From The Eighties: 60 / 900 Refractor With EQ-2 Mount

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I could not resist it, I had to buy another cheap scope… :-) The scope was incomplete, and I bought it mainly for the EQ-2 mount – but it mi...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Cheap Astronomy – A Quick Look At The Bresser 76 / 350 Table-Top Dobson

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A supermarket chain here has been selling off the "Bresser 76 mm (3 inch) f=350mm table-top Dobson telescope" at a very very low p...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

"The SLS is draining away the lifeblood of the space program"

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Looks like Orion/SLS will be an unmitigated disaster for spaceflight (both crewed and uncrewed) – sigh. At the current rate, a single (!) l...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Top 5 Worst Movies Of All Times

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Well, I lied in the title: These are the worst movies that I have seen. And there are certainly bad movies that I have not seen, which sho...