High!

Rarius wrote:

> In all the years I've been an astronomer (25+), I have never heard it called 
> a parallactic mount.

Here in Germanistan ;-) we call it "parallaktische Montierung"...

> I had to Google the term. I have always heard it 
> described as an Equatorial mount. I have a 10in Orion Optics newtonian 
> reflector myself on a large wooden fork mount.

Fork mount? Is it a Dobsonian? Nevertheless, 10 inch would be large 
enough to resolve Neptune as a disc - I just hope you also have the 
appropriate sky at your location! Big city astronomy wouldn't be much 
fun with such a large aperture, with all that scattered artificial light...

> BTW I had done some of this kind of POV work before. I have a topographic 
> model of Mars if you'd like it.

What resolution?

See you on www.khyberspace.de!

Yadgar

Now playing: Shadow On The Wall (Mike Oldfield)

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