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Re: Star Hopping



At 03:45 PM 10/9/02, and at 12:08 PM -0600 10/9/02, Larry Smith wrote:
>
>You'd be surprised how well it works. The laser pointer needs to be fairly
>high-powered, though. With ours we can see the green spot on a hill a mile
>away. The length of the beam as it points to a star gives students all the
>parallax they need. They even find the green star pointer helpful when we
>use the binoculars.
>
>If you haven't tried one of these run, don't walk, to see one in action.
>
>Larry


In fact, it is 5 mW and you might be disappointed if the $130 version is
only a fraction of that power.

Larry


I see that there are smooth operators offering a 'tweaked' version at 15 mW
at a comparable price premium.


Brian Whatcott
Altus OK Eureka!

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