Meeting Details: September 15, 2006

Three presentations as follows:

(1) Don Fohey (Lowbrows). Digital Setting Circle Project.

Don Fohey (University Lowbrow Astronomers) discussed how he built a digital setting circle. For the encoder interface electronics, he used the Interface for Digital Setting Circles by David Ek. For the positioning controller he used A Digital Setting Circle Program for Palm OS by Doug Braun. For more information see the following web sites:

• US Digital
• Far Circuits
• Orion Telescopes
• Sky Engineering

(2) Mark Deprest (Lowbrows). Show and Tell, My Coronado PST.

(3) Viewing of a DVD entitled “A Sidewalk Astronomer.”

Nathan Murphy (University Lowbrow Astronomers) showed the club a DVD entitled “A Sidewalk Astronomer” that highlighted John Dobson, the inventor of the Dobsonian Telescope. (For more information about the Sidewalk Astronomers, an organization co-founded by John Dobson see Website).

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