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I'm actually going to be at my house in Redding unless it looks like there are going to be clouds towards the western mountains...if there is then I'm going to head east a bit towards Lassen. Anywh...more

Your round trip would be about 1000 miles so "only" about 200 dollars. I'd do it...but then again I'm flying to Hawaii to be able to see the entire transit of venus instead of just the first part. ...more

I'm already telling my bosses that I'm going to take a couple of days off in August 2017. :)

If you go to http://shadowandsubstance.com/ you can see animations for various states of the eclipse, whether it's partial or annular.

Thanks! I borrowed my brother and cousins cameras but I have quick access to them. I'm going to try and shoot the "super moon" tonight with my 950mm telescope and two 2x tele-extenders giving my a ...more

Ah. I know of one program you can buy that supposedly allows you to make nets for those shadows or projections of 4 dimensional figures. Stella 4D. http://www.software3d.com/Purchase.php It actuall...more

If there was no cut the distance between the centers would be twice the radius. You have to subtract twice the cut length from that. So you end up needing to solve the equation 2R-2C=sqrt(2)*R. If ...more

That's sorta true. Basically you probably also should take into account the resolution of the camera's sensor. The Mark III is something like 22MP I think whereas my camera is only 16MP. So can dig...more

Thanks. The Cannon 5D Mark III would give cleaner pictures for sure but since it's a full frame sensor as opposed to my camera which has a sensor that's one quarter the area, that setup would actua...more

One of the main reasons I went with an apochromatic refractor is that it can also take nice pictures of close objects like birds and wildlife and the bokeh will look nice because it is a standard l...more

You are right for sure...but I don't really know the answer. The angles should all be the same...so perhaps you could do some test cuts and then set the angle. I've always calculated all the angles...more

wow. That will be pretty awesome! I'd just like to point out that it is the angles that matter with these slide togethers and that the slits should go half way to the other edge.

Yep. Definitely an advantage to a smaller camera. Its the reason that little compacts now have 16 x zoom lenses and why some digital camcorders have 80x zoom. You might look into some spotting scop...more

No telescope. This is just a long telephoto zoom lens (100-300mm). F 5.6 so nut nearly as big of an aperture as even a smallish telescope. I'm thinking of buying a small and light telescope and a l...more

To be fair the sensor on the camera is a little bit smaller than a standard APS C in most SLRs...that gives a slight boost in the zoom department since you are essentially cropping in a little more...more