Confessions of a Frustrated Amateur Astronomer

Follow me into the depths of suffering and frustrations that is amateur astronomy

Entries Tagged ‘astronomy club’

Canon XTi at a dark site

Sep.22, 2009 in Fixed tripod 2 Comments

Hawaii astronomical society held their monthly public star party at Dillingham Airfield near Kaena Point last Saturday.  Dillingham is a very dark site, one of the few left on Oahu.  The airfield only has 1 runway for light aircrafts.
Usually, about 15-20 club members and about 30 or so general public will show up at the [...]

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My first telescope

Jul.31, 2009 in Rants, Tasco Leave a Comment

I wasn’t going to get into amateur astronomy until I retire.  I’ve joined a local astronomy club and went to their star parties.  I’ve looked through their telescope and was fairly unimpressed.  It wasn’t that their scope was bad, it was that my expectations were out of line with reality.  I remember seeing Jupiter and [...]

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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. - Genesis 1:16

Unfortunately God also made chromatic aberration, angular magnification distortion, rectilinear distortion, wavelength transmission anomalies, vignetting, light loss, wavefront aberrations, coma, astigmatism, spherical aberrations, thermal issues, dirty mirrors, bad collimation, Earth rotation, humidity, bad focus, light pollution, wobbly mounts and back pains.

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