As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale. Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400. Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
Greetings, I am not an astronomer, but have scientific background (chemistry) look at http://knowledge.electrochem.org/estir/editor.htm if you want to know more about me. I have a question which may sound bizarre, I already apologize. As far as I understand, the universe is expanding and the galaxies move away from each other. Take two galaxies that move as close as possibly 180 degrees opposite directions, and draw a straight line between them. Find as many such pairs as you can, and see if the connecting lines cross at a fixed point, or at least close to each other. I think it would work better if the galaxies were about the same age. If there is such a point that must have some significance, but what? Regards: Zoltan Nagy. ************************************************ Zoltan Nagy, Visiting Scholar Department of Chemistry, Campus Box 3290 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA Phone: (919) 272-2228 E-mail: nagyz@email.unc.edu or nagyz@live.unc.edu http://electrochem.cwru.edu/portal/ ************************************************ ________________________________________ From: Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> on behalf of Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:59 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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The idea is that the entire universe is expanding. There is no center as you describe. Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 14, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Nagy, Zoltan <nagyz@live.unc.edu> wrote:
Greetings,
I am not an astronomer, but have scientific background (chemistry) look at http://knowledge.electrochem.org/estir/editor.htm if you want to know more about me.
I have a question which may sound bizarre, I already apologize.
As far as I understand, the universe is expanding and the galaxies move away from each other.
Take two galaxies that move as close as possibly 180 degrees opposite directions, and draw a straight line between them. Find as many such pairs as you can, and see if the connecting lines cross at a fixed point, or at least close to each other. I think it would work better if the galaxies were about the same age.
If there is such a point that must have some significance, but what?
Regards: Zoltan Nagy.
************************************************
Zoltan Nagy, Visiting Scholar
Department of Chemistry, Campus Box 3290
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA
Phone: (919) 272-2228
E-mail: nagyz@email.unc.edu or nagyz@live.unc.edu
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/portal/
************************************************
________________________________________ From: Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> on behalf of Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:59 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale
If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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As Joe mentioned the entire universe is expanding. So I believe any individual anywhere in the universe that tried the experiment would find that he/she is at the intersection of all the lines. Clear skies, Dale. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Joe via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The idea is that the entire universe is expanding. There is no center as you describe.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 14, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Nagy, Zoltan <nagyz@live.unc.edu> wrote:
Greetings,
I am not an astronomer, but have scientific background (chemistry) look at http://knowledge.electrochem.org/estir/editor.htm if you want to know more about me.
I have a question which may sound bizarre, I already apologize.
As far as I understand, the universe is expanding and the galaxies move away from each other.
Take two galaxies that move as close as possibly 180 degrees opposite directions, and draw a straight line between them. Find as many such pairs as you can, and see if the connecting lines cross at a fixed point, or at least close to each other. I think it would work better if the galaxies were about the same age.
If there is such a point that must have some significance, but what?
Regards: Zoltan Nagy.
************************************************
Zoltan Nagy, Visiting Scholar
Department of Chemistry, Campus Box 3290
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA
Phone: (919) 272-2228
E-mail: nagyz@email.unc.edu or nagyz@live.unc.edu
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/portal/
************************************************
________________________________________ From: Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> on behalf of Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:59 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale
If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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This concept is discussed and visualized very well in our newest dome theatre program, "Dark Universe." It opens here tomorrow (Friday 1/16). The show is about dark energy and dark matter, and it contains plenty of information/visualization about Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Big Bang cosmology, including how everyone in the universe, anywhere, will observe the universe expanding (and accelerating) away from them. Great visual and intellectually chewy content. Seth Clark Planetarium -----Original Message----- From: Utah-Astronomy [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Dale Hooper Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1:46 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Question-suggestion As Joe mentioned the entire universe is expanding. So I believe any individual anywhere in the universe that tried the experiment would find that he/she is at the intersection of all the lines. Clear skies, Dale. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Joe via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The idea is that the entire universe is expanding. There is no center as you describe.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 14, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Nagy, Zoltan <nagyz@live.unc.edu> wrote:
Greetings,
I am not an astronomer, but have scientific background (chemistry) look at http://knowledge.electrochem.org/estir/editor.htm if you want to know more about me.
I have a question which may sound bizarre, I already apologize.
As far as I understand, the universe is expanding and the galaxies move away from each other.
Take two galaxies that move as close as possibly 180 degrees opposite directions, and draw a straight line between them. Find as many such pairs as you can, and see if the connecting lines cross at a fixed point, or at least close to each other. I think it would work better if the galaxies were about the same age.
If there is such a point that must have some significance, but what?
Regards: Zoltan Nagy.
************************************************
Zoltan Nagy, Visiting Scholar
Department of Chemistry, Campus Box 3290
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA
Phone: (919) 272-2228
E-mail: nagyz@email.unc.edu or nagyz@live.unc.edu
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/portal/
************************************************
________________________________________ From: Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> on behalf of Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:59 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale
If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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If this exercise is to demonstrate a center or a preferred direction to the expansion of the universe it won’t work. The singularity of the Big Bang was a density singularity not a space-time singularity. Inflation has made the universe (on large scales) isotropic, homogeneous and nearly flat. For now, gravity defines the galactic structure you envision measuring and is most structured at a local level. You could come up with any number of line-crossing looking at galaxies within the local group. The Virgo Cluster (the one in which our Milky Way galaxy resides) is moving toward the Great Attractor within the Laniakea Supercluster. That’s a bunch of line-crossings, but this in no way defines a center for the universe. If this is not what you are asking, then I didn’t understand the question. Have fun exploring, Dave
Greetings,
I am not an astronomer, but have scientific background (chemistry) look at http://knowledge.electrochem.org/estir/editor.htm if you want to know more about me.
I have a question which may sound bizarre, I already apologize.
As far as I understand, the universe is expanding and the galaxies move away from each other.
Take two galaxies that move as close as possibly 180 degrees opposite directions, and draw a straight line between them. Find as many such pairs as you can, and see if the connecting lines cross at a fixed point, or at least close to each other. I think it would work better if the galaxies were about the same age.
If there is such a point that must have some significance, but what?
Regards: Zoltan Nagy.
************************************************
Zoltan Nagy, Visiting Scholar
Department of Chemistry, Campus Box 3290
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA
Phone: (919) 272-2228
E-mail: nagyz@email.unc.edu or nagyz@live.unc.edu
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/portal/
************************************************
________________________________________ From: Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> on behalf of Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:59 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale
If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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Individual Galaxies are bound by gravity to eachother and to the centers of galaxy clusters. You have to get out to the superclusters of galaxies to see expansion that isn't clouded by mutual gravity attraction. The isotropic nature of expansion is demonstrated in the cosmic background radiation. Long ago all the hydrogen gas in the universe was ionized into a plasma. As expansion progressed this plasma cooled until protons could capture and keep electrons and atomic hydrogen became the norm. This phase change came with a large pulse of photons as the atoms settled into the ground state. This pulse of light is the CMB. By carefully studying this we can conclude that expansion has no preferred direction. Also, and it's hard to understand, the expansion is caused by new space being born within the existing space, not by objects merely moving apart within a fixed space. Fixed space is a local illusion not a universal fact. Hope this helps DT From: "Nagy, Zoltan" <nagyz@live.unc.edu> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:49 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Question-suggestion Greetings, I am not an astronomer, but have scientific background (chemistry) look at http://knowledge.electrochem.org/estir/editor.htm if you want to know more about me. I have a question which may sound bizarre, I already apologize. As far as I understand, the universe is expanding and the galaxies move away from each other. Take two galaxies that move as close as possibly 180 degrees opposite directions, and draw a straight line between them. Find as many such pairs as you can, and see if the connecting lines cross at a fixed point, or at least close to each other. I think it would work better if the galaxies were about the same age. If there is such a point that must have some significance, but what? Regards: Zoltan Nagy. ************************************************ Zoltan Nagy, Visiting Scholar Department of Chemistry, Campus Box 3290 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA Phone: (919) 272-2228 E-mail: nagyz@email.unc.edu or nagyz@live.unc.edu http://electrochem.cwru.edu/portal/ ************************************************ ________________________________________ From: Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> on behalf of Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:59 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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The two concepts I had the hardest time wrapping my brain around was expansion isn't *into* new space, and that it's equal from every point. Once I just accepted it and ran with it, other things have been able to fall easier into place, like string theory. Thanks, Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh@holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin
On Jan 14, 2015, at 5:52 PM, daniel turner via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Individual Galaxies are bound by gravity to eachother and to the centers of galaxy clusters. You have to get out to the superclusters of galaxies to see expansion that isn't clouded by mutual gravity attraction. The isotropic nature of expansion is demonstrated in the cosmic background radiation. Long ago all the hydrogen gas in the universe was ionized into a plasma. As expansion progressed this plasma cooled until protons could capture and keep electrons and atomic hydrogen became the norm. This phase change came with a large pulse of photons as the atoms settled into the ground state. This pulse of light is the CMB. By carefully studying this we can conclude that expansion has no preferred direction. Also, and it's hard to understand, the expansion is caused by new space being born within the existing space, not by objects merely moving apart within a fixed space. Fixed space is a local illusion not a universal fact. Hope this helps DT
From: "Nagy, Zoltan" <nagyz@live.unc.edu> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:49 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Question-suggestion
Greetings,
I am not an astronomer, but have scientific background (chemistry) look at http://knowledge.electrochem.org/estir/editor.htm if you want to know more about me.
I have a question which may sound bizarre, I already apologize.
As far as I understand, the universe is expanding and the galaxies move away from each other.
Take two galaxies that move as close as possibly 180 degrees opposite directions, and draw a straight line between them. Find as many such pairs as you can, and see if the connecting lines cross at a fixed point, or at least close to each other. I think it would work better if the galaxies were about the same age.
If there is such a point that must have some significance, but what?
Regards: Zoltan Nagy.
************************************************
Zoltan Nagy, Visiting Scholar
Department of Chemistry, Campus Box 3290
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA
Phone: (919) 272-2228
E-mail: nagyz@email.unc.edu or nagyz@live.unc.edu
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/portal/
************************************************
________________________________________ From: Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> on behalf of Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:59 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale
If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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You keep you eye on some national markets. Can you post one or two here so I can pass on to Mark? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 5:59:11 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale If he lived anywhere but here, that scope would have sold quickly. Either coast, or the midwest. But we just don't have that many people around here who are seriously interested in observational astronomy. Much smaller market for used scopes. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
As a courtesy to a former SLAS member I am posting the following particulars about a telescope for sale.
Meade 16" truss design dobsonian with Crayford-style 2" focuser and 1.25" adapter. One spec. says f/4.5 another says f5. Optical coating MgF2. Red Dot finder with adjustable patterns. Includes cooling fan (uses 8 AA batteries), Meade 26mm Series 4000 QX Wide Angle eyepiece, Meade AutoStar Suite Astronomer Edition Software. Asking price $2400.
Inquiries contact mark.shafto@varian.com He said he posted on KSL. com, some of you may have seen it, and got one offer.
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There's Cloudy Nights http://www.cloudynights.com/index/ Astromart (but you have to pay to list or get sale details, $15/yr) http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/ eBay of course, and Craigs List. I also check the Goodwill auctions, but they only sell donations, he can't sell his scope there. Those are the only ones I peruse, Joan. C. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
You keep you eye on some national markets. Can you post one or two here so I can pass on to Mark?
Thanks Chuck, I'll pass them on to the Mark. The scope is heavy, so shipping is an issue, but it seems like a better chance for sale there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:15:13 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale There's Cloudy Nights http://www.cloudynights.com/index/ Astromart (but you have to pay to list or get sale details, $15/yr) http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/ eBay of course, and Craigs List. I also check the Goodwill auctions, but they only sell donations, he can't sell his scope there. Those are the only ones I peruse, Joan. C. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
You keep you eye on some national markets. Can you post one or two here so I can pass on to Mark?
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If the prospective buyer is within a certain radius, say a half day to a full day's drive, sometimes it makes ecconomic sense for the seller to meet them halfway, for a pickup in person. For a Utah seller, this might work for a buyer in CO, WY, ID, NV, CA, AZ, NM. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
Thanks Chuck, I'll pass them on to the Mark. The scope is heavy, so shipping is an issue, but it seems like a better chance for sale there.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:15:13 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale
There's Cloudy Nights http://www.cloudynights.com/index/
Astromart (but you have to pay to list or get sale details, $15/yr) http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/
eBay of course, and Craigs List.
I also check the Goodwill auctions, but they only sell donations, he can't sell his scope there.
Those are the only ones I peruse, Joan.
C.
I've had hundreds of transactions on Astromart... 99.9% trouble-free... highly recommended. Linton -----Original Message----- From: Joan Carman Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:36 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale Thanks Chuck, I'll pass them on to the Mark. The scope is heavy, so shipping is an issue, but it seems like a better chance for sale there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:15:13 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Telescope for Sale There's Cloudy Nights http://www.cloudynights.com/index/ Astromart (but you have to pay to list or get sale details, $15/yr) http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/ eBay of course, and Craigs List. I also check the Goodwill auctions, but they only sell donations, he can't sell his scope there. Those are the only ones I peruse, Joan. C. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
You keep you eye on some national markets. Can you post one or two here so I can pass on to Mark?
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Chuck Hards -
Dale Hooper -
Daniel Holmes -
daniel turner -
Dave Gary -
Joan Carman -
Joe -
Linton Rohr -
Nagy, Zoltan -
Seth Jarvis