> I had actually set up my 8" reflector in an attempt to track > MIR (I > got charts from heavens above and hoped to catch it going > through > Orion in the scope), but I went out too late to set it up > properly. > Having seen the speed at which MIR is crossing the skies I'll > not > bother anyway - not with my pathetic stand anyway. How are > people > managing to do this?? Most of the trouble is just getting the object in the eyepiece. With Mir, that's hard sometimes. Then, you have to move the scope with the speed of Mir fairly sychronized, or you'll lose it again. I see the most detail when I stop moving the scope for a second and just look at the object drift by. ------------------------- Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com "If you come from a little bit of slime out of a pool, then what's so great about life?" --- Arizona Representative Karen Johnson, on the implications of biological evolution ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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