Raffle Tickets

2008 WILL AGAIN FEATURE A CORONADO SOLAR TELESCOPE

SUPPORT THESE RAFFLE PRIZE DONORS

These vendors are making a direct contribution to your enjoyment of the Star Party.  If you need a new eyepiece, a new case, or a new gift idea - check these vendors out first!

Every Star Party participant is given free raffle tickets with adult and family registrations.  Extra tickets can be bought at the Star Party site for $2 per ticket, or $20 for a lot of 12 tickets.  Presently, raffle tickets can not be bought online.  During the event, each prize will have a container for raffle tickets.  Place as many raffle tickets in the containers for the prizes you most want to win.

Donors

• Smart Astronomy
• Edmund Scientific
• Big Binoculars .com
• Norm Lewis SPEAKER
• John Raymond SPEAKER
• Deep Space Views
• Taurus Technologies
• York County Astronomical Society
• Deep Space Views .com, Steve Roffo YCAS Member
• Orion Telescopes
• Hands on Optics
• Scout Case .com
• Agena Astro .com
• Astronomy Ratings .com
• Takahashi America (Texas Nautical Repair)
• Scope City .com
• Astronomy Magazine
• Televue
• High Point Scientific
• Howie Glatter Laser Collimators
• Burgess Optical

Raffle Prizes

Solar System Planetary Long Eye-Relief Eyepieces High quality Planetary Eyepieces designed for super sharp, high-power planetary viewing. These 7 Element, Air Spaced, Long eye relief are excellent for eyeglasses wearers. We offer three focal lengths, 1.25’’ 3mm, 6mm, and 12.5mm. Excellent contrast, and super sharp edge to edge, 55 degree FOV.

Stellavue Binoviewer w/ 2 23mm Eyepieces Here is a high quality binocular viewer (bino-viewer) that comes in a complete system with everything you will need to start binocular viewing in style. The BV3 binocular viewer comes with high contrast, fully multicoated, 22 mm clear aperture, BAK-4 prisms.

Astroscan Telescope The Astroscan Telescope is an easy-to-use, maintenance-free and completely portable. Its wide field of view, beautiful images and ease of use make it an excellent telescope for beginner and expert stargazers alike.

Celestron 7x50 Astro Binoculars
Norm Lewis, Astronomer and MDSP Veteran Speaker

Pocket Sky Atlas
John Raymond, Astronomer and MDSP Speaker

FRAMED Astrophotograph of the North American Nebula, taken by Steve Roffo (who is donating it) with a Takahashi FSQ-106N

Oberwerk 20x60 Binoculars All air-to-glass surfaces are fully broadband multi-coated to decrease light loss due to scattering and reflections.  60mm objectives gather 30% more light than 50mm models.  All Oberwerk binoculars have rugged rubber-armored metal bodies, all-glass lenses

A Unique New Book for All Amateur Astronomers. 308 pages Large Format - 8.5x11" laminated soft cover It includes a master list of virtually all the best objects in the entire night sky (+90º to -90º declination) with large, high resolution images of every single object. All of the images are scaled to the actual size that they will appear in the observers eyepiece.

Starry Night Enthusiast Version 6.2 Explore a vast array of astronomical wonders, both natural and man-made! Replay spectacular fly-bys of Voyager, Galileo, and other famous space missions. Never miss your chance to witness celestial events, such as Jupiter satellite shadow transits, with the powerful Events Finder LaserMate Deluxe Laser Collimator With our LaserMate Deluxe, not only will you get perfect alignment of your reflector's optics, but you will get it faster.

Protect your Celestron SkyScout!

Wide Angle 17mm Eyepiece Bright image, little image distortion, excellent color correction, superior resolving power.

GSO SV Eyepiece Images are virtually free of chromatic aberration or pincushion distortion with excellent flatness of field and eye relief.

TWO Subscriptions!

TWO $25 Gift Certificates!

Takahashi 1.25 10 mm Eyepiece Takahashi eyepieces have their lenses matched and assembled by hand at their plant in Japan. The lenses are all fully multi-coated for best light transmission. The LE eyepieces have a long eye relief parfocal 52 degree field of view. Takahashi America (Texas Nautical Repair is the only importer of Takahashi equipment)

Panoptic 15mm Eyepiece The Tack-Sharp, Long Eye-Relief 68 degree Field Eyepiece. With the Panoptic series, Tele Vue has taken the Wide-Field concept to Nagler-like performance levels - A meaningful advance over any eyepiece in its 68 degree field class. With comfortable eye relief and sharp 68 degree field, this 1 1/4" eyepiece is a good, modest priced alternative to a 16mm Nagler Type 5.

The Astronomer's Journal Logbook Bob's Knob Gift Certificate	Bob's Knobs Gift Certificate

Astro Tech 2” 99 % Reflectivity Dielectric Mirror Diagonal with Comp Ring Eyepiece Holder

... After aligning the laser within 15 arc seconds, I shock test each collimator by whacking it against a block of urethane plastic (urethane prevents marring), striking it at least a dozen times on three axis. I then recheck the laser alignment, and if it has not changed the collimator passes. I believe this is the most important difference setting my collimator apart  from all others I know of. They will withstand a shock equivalent to dropping from eyepiece position, up the ladder on a big Dob, without alteration of laser alignment.

Howie Glatter Laser Collimators

30mm TMB Optical The TMB Paragon is the ultimate wide field eyepiece. The radical new design eliminates almost all aberations, giving the observer a pristine view of the heavens. The coatings are the best available, with ultra-high transmission, giving the observer clear, bright views of the heavens.

Coronado Instruments PST & Case (Personal Solar Telescope)
donated by the York County Astronomical Society
The PST is the latest innovation from Coronado. This ‘little’ telescope is another step toward our goal of making it possible for everyone to, “Experience the Sun our way.” Sub angstrom H-A systems have long been cost prohibitive for the amateur. Designs other than the Coronado are difficult to use because of temperature and F-Ratio requirements. Not only does the PST have a bandpass of <1.0 angstrom but it is also thermally stable and requires no more time to operate than putting in a eyepiece and adjusting the focus. The PST represents the same technology and quality that goes into a SolarMax series telescope but with a few unique design characteristics that allow us to offer it for less than some premium eyepieces. The PST will show you prominences, active regions, filaments, as well as other surface details – at <1.0 angstrom it will not reveal as much surface detail as the SolarMax series telescope and filters but it certainly doesn’t disappoint.

York County Astronomical Society Contact: MDSP Chairperson