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Subject: Re: [M]: MAPUG ettiquette
From: artena@galactica.it
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Fri Dec 13 05:55:14 1996

MA>At 12:02 AM -0800 12/11/96, Scott M. Harrison wrote:
MA>> Is there someplace I can look for the meanings of this <snip>,
MA>><clip>, etc... and various and sundry abbreviations used on MAPUG?
MA>>
MA>> I'm new to this and don't want to make anyone angry.

MA>Good question, no need to apologize. I suppose you could search the
MA>archives but that would be painful. I'll volunteer to keep a MAPUG acronym
MA>list if the rest of you will help generate it. I'll collect the other
MA>replies into a WWW page. So to get started:

MA>MAPUG Meade Advanced Products User Group
MA>OTA optical tube assembly
MA>EP eyepiece
MA>TSP Texas Star Party
MA>FPK Fremont Peak State Park (favorite site of Silicon Valley observers)
MA>CCD charge coupled device (electronic imager)
MA>SBIG Santa Barbara Instruments Group (CCD manufacturer)
MA>GPS Global Positioning System
MA>PEC periodic error correction
MA>Alt altitude
MA>Az azimuth
MA>RA right ascension
MA>Dec declination

MA>BTW by the way
MA>OTOH on the other hand
MA>FYI for your information

MA>LX (as in LX200) ?
MA>ETX ?

MA>---
MA>Bill Arnett billa@znet.com http://www.seds.org/billa/

MA> "I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
MA> out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
MA> the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
MA> ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

What about IMHO and BTW?????