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awesome. So you are clearly on a much higher level than I am. I have had this forum running under three different types of forum software since 2010. I did the big export and import of all the databases into different packages twice, with moderate success :), and don’t want to ever do it again. I kn...

Rudi, how would you rate your skills in advanced forum coding to fix problems, cosmetics and database structure/access?

about 2200.

welcome

Anyone who joined but has not signed in since January 2019 and has also never posted anything was removed today to speed up the database a little. I did a search for spam emails and there were hundreds of suspicious emails registered. In order to maintain the safety of the forum, these users were re...

Welcome to our friendly forum!

hi welcome to the forum! You may not believe this but we get almost the exact same basic question about four times a month here. A person buys a small h alpha scope to start because they don’t know what they are getting into or for financial reasons and then starts adding every accessory on Earth an...

Orion is currently suing Celestron for the same reasons. Celestron is equipped financially to fight back, Meade wasn’t. There is no telling what’s going to happen to the Coronado brand. I stay out of all the retail nonsense on purpose and will continue to do so. I have 3 old Coronado telescopes left...

anyone know how many of these books were sold through Solarchat? i’m guessing quite a few.

Meade Instruments no longer exists. It is now Orion Telescopes DBA/Meade Acquisitions corporation. I had a very long-winded post up here but have decided to just stay out of the situation and leave no trace since I have already had legal dealings with Orion about using my name and images to advertis...

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words cannot express the utter amazement we experienced watching the Northern lights this far south in the United States. We were 600 miles South of the predicted visibility oval.

there is a 4 year gap between the 4th post here and the resr of them.

Re: 0.10 angstrom Ca-K full-disk images (5 May 2024) wow, that’s great!

wow, that’s great!

I can guarantee you that no one at Lunt will accept the scope for repairs or want to give you any advice as they were sued on multiple occasions by Meade for violating their trademarks. Marks suggestion is the best one I’ve heard yet. Someone has probably already mentioned this but you can always ju...

Meade no longer exists also so there is zero chance of getting it repaired by Coronado. Orion is just selling off all backstock now as “Meade Acquisition Corporation”.
Tough break, man.

That's fantastic Stephen :hamster: :hamster: Who won the prize draw? Alexandra Dale Shinneman, a retired Physics/Astronomy teacher in New England. she declined the equipment as she no longer teaches so we awarded it to Julio Vaninni who used to be our Director of the Nicaraguan affiliate for CBSAP....

Fundraising for a nonprofit is the least favorite thing I have ever done. It is a constant stream of disappointment in my fellow humans punctuated by random spikes of incredible sacrifice and generosity. I could go on for hours about how the people who donate almost never have anything to do with as...

Thanks so much to our tiny group of very committed donors to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth!! The fundraiser is over and here are the numbers. Total raised $22,012.59 Total # of donations 185 Total donors 179 (some multiple donations) Average donation $118.98 Median donation ...

LAST DAY OF THE BIG FUNDRAISER!! Thanks Matt Harbison, Bojan Broz, and super surfer Bob Lamb! for their very generous donations to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Spring fundraiser! Help us spread the hobby you love so much and be that person that helps someone else get into i...

welcome to our and thanks for the post! You are on your way it would seem.

The forum Is ran by me from my living room in Atlanta so we don’t have much staff to work on these things I apologize for the delay in the email.

We have met our goal in the spring fundraiser and I am very grateful to the 25 or so donors on Solarchat that carry everyone else. Those that never donate or don’t think they need to or think that someone else will pay for it or whatever, remember, the only reason this forum doesn’t have a monthly s...

Mark and Alexandra alerted me to some very slow response times on the forum this morning. Since we changed over to dreamhost the forum has been running exceedingly well but it looks like we just got overloaded with too many people logged in and too many things in the image cache. I purged the cache ...

SO CLOSE!!!! Thanks to Karen Christen, Aimee Sobhani, Jordan Konisky, Alan Roche, Cheeri Berry, Elena Nash and David Illig for their generous support of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Spring fundraiser! Please consider supporting us in our quest to educate people about the be...

Thank you cousin Linda Terdan Conrad! and Tim Connelly for the generous donations to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Spring fundraiser! WE ARE ALMOST THERE! Let’s get this done. $1900 to go for the goal and the grand prize giveaway! www.paypal.me/cbsap www.venmo.com/cbsapse IM...

shhhh..: that’s the whole reason I fly over there in the first place is to get telescopes and computers through customs. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t . All depends on what kind of person is working at the time and how much they want

special request to our membership: we are planning on sponsoring a local outreach photographer while we are at the observatory dedication in Kosovo with a Sony 70 to 200 mm F2.8 FE OSSII lens. The problem is finding one of these lenses at a price I can afford seeing as how I will be paying probably ...

Lunt will not be there this year

115 donations so far at an average donation of $113 each. Thank you. We have 14,690 users on our three facebook groups and one Internet forum 21 donations from solarchatforum.com 90 donations from Facebook users 3 donations via mailed check 1 donation via EFT transfer raising money is my least favor...

Thanks everyone for a great fundraiser so far for our program and the first National Observatory/Science Center in Kosovo! We have 14 days left to raise another $7,255 in order to make our goal. Please make a donation to help these dreams become reality in science education! www.paypal.me/cbsap www....

we will have a special guest at our monthly get together on April 14 at 1800 GMT. Pranvera Hyseni, Doctoral candidate in Planetary Geology at the University of California in San Jose and Director of Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo, the CBSAP affiliate in Kosovo will be joining us to go over the grand o...

11 donations from Solarchat members so far. Alright everybody, let’s get this fundraiser going! Here’s how it works; you give a little bit to the pot and then I manage it in a manner that gets high end equipment and training to people all over this country and 27 others so that they can get young pe...

If anyone else is going to NEAF, come say hi!

we could really use your help with the fundraiser also as I’m trying to work up a starting gift for the observatory in Kosovo while still maintaining all of our other programs around the world and this forum.

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I have owned pix insight since it first came out and have struggled with it many times usually giving up in the end. I see all of those guys teaching classes at NEAF every year And have developed a strong dislike of having to use the program. lol Is there a fee for the Solar toolbox and has anyone a...

WE ARE SO CLOSE TO PASSING THE HALF WAY MARK! Thank you Robert Arnold, Vineet Bewtra, Kevin Sherwood, and Hilario Alvarez for your generous donations to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Spring fundraiser! Please help us teach more science of the Sun by making a tax deductible d...

What’s wrong with it? Looks pretty good to me.
Thanks for posting.

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just an opinion but you’d be way better off dumping the Quark and getting a real solar telescope and then a second etalon. By the time you get done, you will have spent the same money.

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beautiful stuff!

This is a VERY special fundraiser for the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth! It the culmination of 15 years of hard work and dedication to teaching the science of the Sun to anyone who would listen and supporting others around the world to bring it into their communities for a more ...

wow! this IS THE POST for anyone interested in getting the Sol Ex Spectroheliograph.

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