>>Nice description!
>>Do I sense some physics in your background?
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>Well, you might notice the part of my reply in quotes...had to look that up for a concise description...I did take a year of advanced physics in college, but, oc, that was a loooong time ago. Studied some celestial navigation when I went cruising, but that sort of fell by the wayside, w/GPS.
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>Guess you don't see too many green flashes in Nebraska.
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>J

In Nebraska, with so many city AND rural farm lights, plus agricultural dust, anything like a green flash, or the Milky Way is almost never visible. The number of good seeing days are limited to right after strong rain storms or to NW Nebraska. I have a Mead LX200 but I rarely take it out because the viewing is not worth it. I contemplated CCD attachments but found more fun playing with astronomy programs like XEphem (A Linux freebie!:).