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Sorry to hear this, I was the designer of the 10" Classic Dobsonian and XT 4.5 telescopes. It was very gratifying to see the 10 inch used by public observatories such as the Visitor Center on Mauna Kea and at Chabot College. Sorry for the staff. The bigger puzzle is what happened to Meade.

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So I’ll never be able to get the 10” Dob replacement mirror I need. Oh well…. maybe I can get the existing one re-coated somewhere

It Sure looks like the END OF A Hack saw , The part that holds the saw on the Hack saw 🤔

I would imagine a "WARN" notice would be triggered if they were going to shut down completely I don't know how many employees they had but I'm guessing it was more than 100 (which would be needed to require a WARN notice) If that's the case...........people working there certainly knew

Meade's website is still up. Is anybody home there?

Cool! I was able to see it. Thanks for making another great video :)

Wow glad I had ordered my Skywatcher 400P instead of the Orion xx16g back at the end of Aug when I was looking to upgrade. Like you mentioned I feel sorry for the employees and their families hopefully they were able to find new work. The company should have at least had the decency to ship back everyones equipment before they closed doors.

Almost succeeded. Occasionally got three moons! One in the centre and others left and right. I know it SHOULD work, but my eyes start to water, I blink, and it’s game over.

im 60 years old and this is the first ive heard of a 16 inch record album

I assume the “focus breathing” in your video is due using auto focus. It’s a bit distracting. Your video has plenty of depth of field, so setting manual focus would keep your framing from jumping to and fro. Thank you for your info. Assuming undelivered scopes were purchased with credit cards, the purchaser can go through their CC company and get their money back due to seller fraud.

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Sad story about Orion. I got an amazing deal on an Orion SkyView Pro 8 EQ, because the seller didn't offer shipping so I got it picked up and shipped by a UPS Store. Any suggestions on upgrades? Such as a better 2-speed 2" focuser?

Wow! After watching this video I know exactly how I am going to do my telescope! PAINT IT! Flock that flocking tape crap. No flocking way!

Wow I have a meade 70mm spotting scope and an orion 8" Newtonian which I do need a part for. Guess I'll have to go to a machine shop and have it made. Would have been nice for a warning so people could make purchases. The china made junk has put just about everything out of business. Another fail from trump who said he was keeping manufacturing jobs in america.

Very interesting. Thank you for making such fun 3D viewing experience possible and explaining everything so well!

I couldn’t see the third image of the Moon. It might have something to do with the fact that I’m blind in one eye 😂

I see two (@)(@)😂

this appears to be very close to my Nexus pro DSC in terms of functionality, and without encoders. My guess is the alignment is not as robust as a conventional DSC, but it looks pretty cool, might have to give it a try.

Dogs use a similar technique to identify the direction of a sound. It's why they tilt their heads while listening. Sorry but the the thumb technique didn't work for me. But neither do 3-D glasses, so maybe it's not possible for me.

I worked for Orion for 12 years from 1990 to 2002 . if I could talk to you off the record I might get in hot water to actually give the story from my POV. I designed all the covers,softcases and dew shields and other acessories for Orion until recent shut down without notice...

It just occurred to me that last night I captured a reasonably clean time lapse of the eclipse. The start and finish frames are about 4 hours apart. If I edit out the az-el field rotation I might be able to get this to work

Cool! I can see it. Nice video, thanks.

That was fun! The thumb trick really works although the image only lasts a moment for me. Maybe with some practice…

so i just recently got a new scope and moved from .965 eye pieces to 1.25 and i kind of wish i saw this before i started collecting more eye pieces then i have in 45 years. so tonight there was a partial lunar eclipse and i was checking it out and just for fun i dropped in the svbony cross hair eye piece to see what it actually looked like using it for something other then setting up my scope and i was flabbergasted with what i saw its a 20 mm 70 degree view. im gonna have to get a couple more like that.

I have very good eyesight, but when I do the cross-eye trick the middle image is just a bright blurred circular disc with color fringes around the edges. Any tips on how to retain sharpness?

If there was still inventory why not sell it? It may actually be a requirement of the creditors.🧐

Hah, that's wild. I can see the 3d effect though.

Excellent examples and explanations, John! Congratulations! The problem with these aigrettes masks or curved vanes is that they spread the diffraction pattern all over the field. In practice it is as if they make the spikes to "disappear", but it is not so, the diffraction pattern is spread all over the field. This is clearly seen at minute 10:41 when you compare the actual "spikeless" image on the left with the four spike image on the right. The one without spikes seems to have a bigger fuzzy disc when compared to the one with 4 spikes. The spread do to the secondary mirror now has an additional halo around. Sure, some people will prefer the spikeless images with bigger fuzzy diameter and others (like me) will prefer the four spike image with a smaller fuzzy diameter. But there's an important point here: let's say we are chasing a double star with a very bright main star and a smaller companion. For example Sirus A and B. Currently they are separated by 11 arc seconds but the difference in magnitudes is great, -1,47 for Sirius A (primary) and +8,5 for Sirus B (companion). Guess what, probably in the situation you are using a aigrettes, the bigger bright halo around A will engulf the B component. If no aigrettes were used, probably you may be able to see Sirius B. That's why I prefer the 4 spíkes. They give the most clear picture with less diffraction dispersion and the star disc is sufficiently smaller to allow finding the companion of a double system. Same things happens in a more dramatic way in refractors (no spikes) with the Airy's disc diameter and the first illuminated ring. They are inversely proportional to the diameter. So the bigger the lens, the smaller the Airy's disc diameter and the first ring. Good to get tight doubles with very different magnitudes!

Any scope manually controlled will hold its value quite well, anything with electronics on board will be worth scrap value in no time!. It would probably be wise to sell now if you have a smart scope in any shape or form...

Wow!! I see 3D with red and blue 3D cardboard glasses. Just kidding. 😊 Very interested about real 3D.

I can see it.

Might work well using Cardboard if you get the image spacing just right.

I tried many times and it doesn't work. I'm angry now 😡

Cool 3D Effect! Thanks!

Yes. Seen it. Cool…😎

There are two ways of seeing a 3D image on a computer screen, parallel view and cross view. The method you used in this video was the parallel view, in which the right image is on the right and the left is on the left, but that can create eye strain when the images are large and seen on a desktop computer. This is because your eyes are attempting to view two images that are wider apart than their eyes and human eyes are not able to move outward away from each other. The cross view method is better for large images, in which case (as the name implies) the images are switched right to left and left to right. The viewer crosses their eyes until they see 3 images and then focus on the one in the center. In that case, the right eye is viewing the image on the left and the left eye is viewing the one on the right. That method works better because human eyes routinely "cross" when viewing objects close to us, so the muscles aren't doing anything unusual. The cross view method is difficult for some people to learn but there's a trick you can use that makes it easier. Place your hands on either side of your eyes like blinders and cup your hands until the your right eye can only see the image on the left (the right view) and the image on the left eye can only see the image on the right (the left view). This makes it almost impossible not to easily see the 3D effect. Also, there are companies that make mirrored viewers you look through like binoculars for watching stereo movies and photos in the parallel view on your computer screen. So if you're into this 3D stereo thing as a hobby, there are a number of methods and tools.

thanks John lots great fun info

Cool! Got it!

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wonderful video

Neat!

That's a pretty cool idea, thanks!

Thanks for the great video John! As always informative and entertaining 😂

Now if I can only get my eyes to uncross...

100% cloud cover here tonight, but as soon as we can we plan to give this a try. Now to re-read Red Hope . . .

Very cool cross-eye 3d image of the moon 😎

it worked! the thumb hack makes it a lot easier to see the 3d image. thanks for a great video...as always!

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