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Yeah Algonquin Gas Transmission Company did that right down the street from my house about a year and a half ago.

hah I know the feeling. I had a hand corker and I just did a test bottle and immediately bought a Portuguese floor corker because there was no way I was going to be corking several hundred bottles a year with a hand corker! hah. The best item I've purchased in this hobby though is still the...

Yeah I saw this. This is one crappy Monday.

+1 for the old brylcreem slogan reference.

Yep. We use computerized equatorial telescope mounts. Basic decent ones start around $800, the really good ones that can carry large heavy telescopes and extremely tight alignments can shoot up well over $10k and in some cases over $50k or more. They are very cool too. They will use...

Not that clear. Actually some things are not visible to the eye. The only way you can get enough photons for them to become visible is using long exposures photographs like I did above. (as noted, three hours worth in that image alone) For instance, the Horsehead Nebula is visible to the...

Zinfandel is one of if not my favorite varietal so far, and my Lodi old vine Zinfandel is the best of all the wines I've made thus far... (granted I still have many that haven't hit the year aging mark yet)

I've haven't done much Astrophotography in a while, but I'm starting to get back into the swing of it. It was brought on by the Connecticut Star Party (CSP) that happen last weekend. Great weekend! This is the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) It exists in the sky between Cassiopeia, Camelopardalis...

We do! Actually we do monthly lectures from some of the worlds top scientist and it's completely free and open to the public! Actually, just last Tuesday we had Dr. Daniel Wolf Savin. He gave a great lectures about Chemistry in the Cosmos. Here are the details: Next October and again...

Not exactly sure, but I would guess somewhere between 8" to 12" pour. The scope is heavy, but not that heavy. A couple of a hundred pounds maybe. The main weight is the thick 25" wide mirror at the base. You have these wooden handle bars that connect to the base of the scope that allow you...

I used to be a board member of the Westport Astronomical Society. Since moving about 45 minutes away, now I'm just a regular member. Anyhow, we had a 12.5" reflector telescope up on the dome. On Saturday, we installed a 16" Meade Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. Here is the picture of the...

Actually that is a great picture. You should be extremely happy with that. My buddy took a 101mm Hydrogen Alpha telescope to Beatrice, NE and they were mostly clouded out. They said it did clear up a bit, but lots of clouds. We had clouds too, but they were thin clouds so we could...

I couldn't get my DSLR to focus in my telescope. :( I've taken hundreds of images with it thought my telescope, but I just couldn't get it to focus today. So I was stuck just using my cell phone via the eye piece. :( The telescope is a Celestron C8 (8" 8 schmidt cassegrain style telescope)...

This can actually be state regulated. In Connecticut the value is 50 gallons per year an individual can produce, not 100 gallons. If you have a partner, you can produce 100 gallons.

If you have a known recipe that works really well and you know no tweaks will be needed. Then I would think the bulk aging isn't about aging. It's more about sediment. A fruit (or quick drink) wine you are going to drink within a year. Age it long enough where you don't get floaties, then...

I was supposed to go out to Beatrice, NE for the Eclipse, but other pressing issues forced me to cancel that trip. I would have imaged it. (I'm a hobby Astronomer / Astrophotographer) I will be at work when it happens now, but luckily it looks like it was be at least somewhat sunny here and...

Get your Viognier outta my Cabernet bottle! :ft

...umm, does someone have a macro bins, electric destemmer/crusher, punch down, precision hydrometer, pH meter, SO2 meter, press, corker, bottle filler, pumps, truck I could borrow for the next season? :db

My 2016 WE Lodi Cab and Stag's Leap Merlot labels

Agreed, nice grab!