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Ringo
Li
I came to the
United States in 1975. I was born in Hong Kong China. You can detect
my Chinese accent even in my writing.
I am in the business of customer accounting programming, web site
design, networking, computer hardware and network engineering. I
have been consulting small business in the Los Angeles, California
for the last 18 years.
My hobby include computer, electronics, photography, woodworking,
metal works and astronomy. I am kind of Jack of all trade. Anything
that can be taken apart, I will take it apart to see how it work.
I have a well garage filled with tools for metal works and wood
works.
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My early
years in Astronomy
I bought a Celestron
telescope in 1980's around the time that Comet Haley flew close
enough for us to see it in the night sky. It was a telescope with
a 3" refracting lens. I used it to view Comet Haley, the Moon,
and even the planets Saturn and Jupiter. I became fascinated, so
I bought several books on astronomy. Eventually, my interest died
down for several reasons. One of which was the telescope. It was
a very poorly made telescope. There was free-play everywhere and
accuracy was not precise. Additionally, the telescope's instructions
were badly written and unhelpful. I was lucky just to get the viewfinder
aligned with the telescope. Using the telescope caused so much frustration
that it was no longer worth the trouble to use. Before long, the
telescope was put in the corner to collect dust.
ETX-90
I have always wanted an Meade ETX-90 ever since it was released into
the market. After reading about it magazines for years, the Meade
ETX-90EC came out with the Autostar. I thought, "Wow! That is
NICE!" The price was a little high, so I didn't buy one right
away. I waited for a few years to see if the price would drop. The
price remained the same, mostly, but its quality improved. Then last
year, the price finally did drop and I bought an Meade ETX-90EC.
I bought the
telescope, the tripod, hard-case and some other accessories, totaling
almost a thousand dollars. I was excited. Unfortunately, much like
my first telescope, the instructions included with it (and its accessories)
were poor. As such, I had trouble getting it to function as advertised.
To make matters worse, there was no one to ask for support. Needless
to say, frustration overcame my initial excitement.
But I persisted.
I had spent too much money on the equipment to simply give up. I
decided to go online to search for some help. Eventually, I found
just about everything that I needed. With the new information, I
figured out how to make everything work and developed an entire
system that is precise, consistent, and easy to use.
My Guide
Book
I have organized and compiled all of the information that I have
gathered from the Internet in addition to my hard learning experience
and wrote a book. This book is to help ETX/Autostar users to achieve
the goal: Consistent astronomy without frustration. That is what
my book is all about. With this book, you'll be just a few minutes
away from enjoying star glazing
This guide book
is not meant to replace the official Meade manuals that are originally
included with the telescope, the Autostar, and tripod. As brief
and unorganized as those original manuals are, they still serve
as a good reference. This guide is to supplement those manuals in
the areas that are only briefly mentioned or are not integrated
with each other.
Products
that I sell
I love to tinker
with "things". I have enough tools in my garage workshop
to build and experiment with lot of my ideas.. I love gadgets and
I love to be able to do everything easier and faster. I either buy
the gadget or built it myself to make stargazing more enjoyable.
Some of my idea became the products that I sell on ebay
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