Discussion on Holy Moly I won!! within the The Sarlacc Pit forum, part of the Community category; I never win anything. But I was at a craftshow
I never win anything. But I was at a craftshow this past weekend and I bought a raffle ticket. We left early since it died out quickly and I just got phoned that I won this a GPS - LX90-ACF Meade telescope, or you can see one here http://www.meade.com/lx90-acf/index.html. I can't wait to pick this guy up tomorrow! Not bad for only a buck!
Congrats! Can't bet a dollar for that!
If anyone deserves it you do! Congratulations!!
Way to go taco!!!!! You gonna use it or sell it????
Hope is not a scam...just to make you come and later find
out you have to buy a Cando or some Time Share in order
to recieve you prize. Good Luck!
Woo Hoo!
Congrats! Dont sell it - you'll have LOTS of fun with it I promise!
I have an ETX (forget which model now) and I love it!
Dave
No I'm sure its not a scam, it was a big rally to help breast cancer awareness and they gave all the other prizes at the end of the day. I am going to keep it. I think i might be fun when I'm bored at night.
Congrats!
Cool! Now you can look at galaxies far, far away. . .
Thats a good one, my uncle has it. You can hook it up to a laptop and just tell it what star to find and it does it all for you. Congrats.
Ooh thats pretty sweet. My dad has a Meade (no clue what model) but those things are awesome. I need to tell him to bust that thing out again so we can do some stargazing. I think my dad has an 8" one.
I tell you, It's very breathtaking to see with your own eyes, the ring of Saturn, the storm on Jupiter, and the icecaps on Mars.
Will yours come with a programmable motor that will turn the telescope to compensate for the earth's rotation to keep the object you are look at from drifting out of view?
Congrats Taco... looks like some good karma came your way after your car incident?
Don't be checking out Uranus...
That's great buddy! Congrats.
Right on brother. With that thing you can zero in on Endor and guide in a tactical nuclear strike on those **** teddy bears that ruined ROTJ!
You could see into the neighbors house with that thing!
kidding, ahaha
but seriously
congrats.
nothing like winning something for a buck!
Does anyone know if I'll be able to take pictures with it? If I were to see ET waving I want to be able to show you guys..lol.
Congrats!
very cool, congratulations!
=)
Sweet Taco. You will be able to check out some of my progress in person then... I'll give you coordinates in Ohio. I can also show you when something arrives here from you
Nice score!
Sweet score, dude! I'm jealous!
Congrats Taco!
Nice!
Now it's up to YOU to make Pluto official again!
Congrats buddy!
Originally Posted by 99centTaco
I know some do... but not sure on this particular model. I know for sure
you'll be able to have a great views at your nieghbors window...hehe! J/K
Not too much of a telescope buff, but I believe with some you can.
I have a 90 and while I can see the cloud bands on Jupiter and some nebula they are still pretty tiny and faint and exciting to see, just not worth the expense of getting a camera set up. You can take pictures with that telescope depending on the f rating and how good you are with playing with exposure lengths. You will need a CCD camera and or an adapter for a film camera. But I'm no expert.
Its been awhile since I took out my set-up at night (since my laptop died)...
For my version there is an adapter (about $20) that lets you use a specific Phillips CCD webcam as the basis of a cheap but hi quality astrophotography set-up... I have links and sites etc. on my old Mac. I can dig out what I have if your interested?
I took a couple of nice Lunar shots with a 2.5MP camera just held up to the eyepiece before my adapter came - can also post if you like
Well worth the time and energy - I wouldnt get rid of my set-up if you begged me!
Love it!
Dave
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