Re: My night . . .

2003-06-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:13 PM 6/3/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: The problem with binoculars, or anything else that's not mounted on a stand, is keeping things steady. What I found worked best for me, anyway, was leaning my elbows on a car one way or another. Sitting on the

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-05 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:13 PM 6/3/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Yes. It's called a tripod . . . -- Ronn! :) OK, I'm not sure how you'd attach one to the binoculars we have. On most ther is a little screw hole on the bottom in

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:54 PM 6/4/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:13 PM 6/3/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: The problem with binoculars, or anything else that's not mounted on a stand, is keeping things steady. What I found worked best for me, anyway, was leaning my elbows on a

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-05 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:25 PM 6/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: At 11:28 PM 6/3/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: At 12:16 AM 6/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: Of probably no particular interest to anyone: Tonight was the first astronomy class of the summer term, and we had gotten just about to the halfway point, and I was winding

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-04 Thread Steve Sloan II
Kevin Tarr wrote: Anyway I have binoculars. I could always get a great pair of binocs first. Ahh, it doesn't matter. What I need is time. I always hear that it's best to start out learning with binoculars. Going to check it out at work. Here's what I wanted:

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Steve Sloan II wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: Anyway I have binoculars. I could always get a great pair of binocs first. Ahh, it doesn't matter. What I need is time. I always hear that it's best to start out learning with binoculars. Just be careful where you go if you're interested in

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:28 PM 6/3/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: At 12:16 AM 6/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: Of probably no particular interest to anyone: Tonight was the first astronomy class of the summer term, and we had gotten just about to the halfway point, and I was winding the string around my gyroscope in order

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:13 PM 6/3/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Steve Sloan II wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: Anyway I have binoculars. I could always get a great pair of binocs first. Ahh, it doesn't matter. What I need is time. I always hear that it's best to start out learning with binoculars. Just be

My night . . .

2003-06-03 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
Of probably no particular interest to anyone: Tonight was the first astronomy class of the summer term, and we had gotten just about to the halfway point, and I was winding the string around my gyroscope in order to use it to demonstrate precession, when the county sheriff who does security

Re: My night . . .

2003-06-03 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/2/2003 10:15:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of probably no particular interest to anyone: It's an opening line that perks my interest. Tonight was the first astronomy class of the summer term, and we had gotten just about to the halfway