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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Alan Ianson on Sat Jul 31 08:58:00 2021
    Hello Alan!

    ** On Saturday 31.07.21 - 00:19, Alan Ianson wrote to All:

    Astronomy Picture of the Day
    2021 July 31

    Remembering NEOWISE
    Explanation: It was just last July. If you could see
    the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find Comet
    NEOWISE in your evening sky..


    Could you see it from your vantage point in BC? I suppose that
    with all the smoke in the air the opprtunities were few?


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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.3 to August Abolins on Sat Jul 31 06:18:52 2021
    Remembering NEOWISE
    Explanation: It was just last July. If you could see
    the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find Comet
    NEOWISE in your evening sky..

    Could you see it from your vantage point in BC?

    Probably but I never went looking for it.

    I suppose that with all the smoke in the air the opprtunities were few?

    The skies are smoky here now but last July would have been better.

    I haven't made the trip in a while but I have driven a star gazing friend on a trip about 30 minutes out of town away from all the lights. He has a small telescope that he connects to his laptop and once he has it adjusted he can zero in on just about whatever you'd like to look at.
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  • From August Abolins@2:460/256 to Alan Ianson on Sat Jul 31 17:26:34 2021
    Hi Alan,
    ...Greets from my Telegram app!

    Remembering NEOWISE
    Explanation: It was just last July. If you could see
    the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find Comet
    NEOWISE in your evening sky..

    Could you see it from your vantage point in BC?

    Probably but I never went looking for it.

    I suppose that with all the smoke in the air the opprtunities were few?

    The skies are smoky here now but last July would have been better.

    I haven't made the trip in a while but I have driven a star gazing friend on a trip about 30 minutes out of town away from all the lights. He has a small telescope that he connects to his laptop and once he has it adjusted he can zero in on just about whatever you'd like to look at.

    So.. he was looking at the images on the laptop? Or, was he using the laptop to aide in pointing the telescope to the right spot in the sky. I have no idea how "computerized" telescopes work.

    Ciao!
    /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.3 to August Abolins on Mon Aug 2 05:40:42 2021
    So.. he was looking at the images on the laptop? Or, was he using the laptop to aide in pointing the telescope to the right spot in the sky. I have no idea how "computerized" telescopes work.

    I don't know how they work either. No pictures on the computer. That is probably doable but you would need a way to connect the camera to the telescope and that would be non trivial.

    We just used the telescope itself to view whatever we were looking at.

    That would be good to be able to grab pictures from the telescope but I'm not sure what kind of gear you would need to do that.
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  • From August Abolins@2:460/256 to Alan Ianson on Mon Aug 2 15:49:47 2021
    Hi Alan,
    ...Greets from my Telegram app!

    So.. he was looking at the images on the laptop? Or, was he using the laptop
    to aide in pointing the telescope to the right spot in the sky. I have no
    idea how "computerized" telescopes work.

    I don't know how they work either. No pictures on the computer. That is probably doable but you would need a way to connect the camera to the telescope and that would be non trivial.

    We just used the telescope itself to view whatever we were looking at.

    That would be good to be able to grab pictures from the telescope but I'm not sure what kind of gear you would need to do that.

    My Bushnell Computerized Starlocator is at home now. From brief looksee of the manual, it looks like the pivot/tripod mechanism is used to "match" the numbers of the computerized part which is just a glorified index of astrological entities? Or.. is there a motor on that thing that pivots to the exact spot on the sky. If the later, I'll probably need batteries! Ugh.

    Ciao!
    /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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