Al Paslow Astronomy Collection
Images and events of personal interest.
"My name is Eric Ramos, I'm 52, and live in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I'm married for 18 years and have 2 boys; 16 and 15, and a girl, 9. My wife is a Lawyer and I work in my studio as a recording engineer. As such I did manage my first grammy in the year 2000."
This is how Eric introduced himself to me. Hi.This series of pictures is devoted to a remarkable individual named Eric Ramos. Eric has been an observer and amateur telescope maker for many years now. He has restored the beautiful Cave 8 inch Cassegrain pictured here. We have exchanged quite a few e-mails recently and are currently working on some telescope projects together. Every time I receive an e-mail from Eric I never know what I'll see next. The beautiful eclipse was such a pleasant surprise! I wish to share some of the images Eric has sent me and will continue to post more as they are received. I have placed excerpts of some of the e-mails with the images as I obtained them. Hence when viewing the image you can see what Eric describes to me in his own words. In some instances we talked about The AAAP Mingo Creek Observatory and the Planetarium. Eric has made specific references to the Mingo Planetaruim and compares our projector to the unit his club -La Sociedad Astronómica Dominicana uses . He is also pictured calibrating the projector on one of the images. .... Eric this site is devoted to you and your astronomical adventures. I hope you, your family and friends will enjoy !! - Al
This is how Eric introduced himself to me. Hi.This series of pictures is devoted to a remarkable individual named Eric Ramos. Eric has been an observer and amateur telescope maker for many years now. He has restored the beautiful Cave 8 inch Cassegrain pictured here. We have exchanged quite a few e-mails recently and are currently working on some telescope projects together. Every time I receive an e-mail from Eric I never know what I'll see next. The beautiful eclipse was such a pleasant surprise! I wish to share some of the images Eric has sent me and will continue to post more as they are received. I have placed excerpts of some of the e-mails with the images as I obtained them. Hence when viewing the image you can see what Eric describes to me in his own words. In some instances we talked about The AAAP Mingo Creek Observatory and the Planetarium. Eric has made specific references to the Mingo Planetaruim and compares our projector to the unit his club -La Sociedad Astronómica Dominicana uses . He is also pictured calibrating the projector on one of the images. .... Eric this site is devoted to you and your astronomical adventures. I hope you, your family and friends will enjoy !! - Al
"Al:
Just wanted you to see how similar your planetarium projector is to our Goto's.
Standing on the ladder, I'm calibrating the instrument and planetary positions with
ephemeris information, to begin working with the public at the museum."
"If your planetarium has anything like a program card then it is more fit for a public show
than ours. We have to do everything manually and according to "pre-learned" steps and
sequences. The intro of the recorded show has some cool electronic minutes or so
of getting the mood until the sun appears. Then we simulate sunset, the red dawn effect,
the apparition of the first stars, but we keep the skyglow lightly illuminated until we talk
about dark skies where everything goes pitch black and the wows start to be heard when
about maybe 700 stars appear to about mag 4. The whole thing lasts about 28 minutes
and eventually ends up with Holst's The Planet's music for each planet described and
proyected with the slide machine. A didactic teaching machine converted into a show
where nobody complains of gets bored is to us a great accomplishment!
- Eric Ramos"
Just wanted you to see how similar your planetarium projector is to our Goto's.
Standing on the ladder, I'm calibrating the instrument and planetary positions with
ephemeris information, to begin working with the public at the museum."
"If your planetarium has anything like a program card then it is more fit for a public show
than ours. We have to do everything manually and according to "pre-learned" steps and
sequences. The intro of the recorded show has some cool electronic minutes or so
of getting the mood until the sun appears. Then we simulate sunset, the red dawn effect,
the apparition of the first stars, but we keep the skyglow lightly illuminated until we talk
about dark skies where everything goes pitch black and the wows start to be heard when
about maybe 700 stars appear to about mag 4. The whole thing lasts about 28 minutes
and eventually ends up with Holst's The Planet's music for each planet described and
proyected with the slide machine. A didactic teaching machine converted into a show
where nobody complains of gets bored is to us a great accomplishment!
- Eric Ramos"
"Al:
Just wanted you to see how similar your planetarium projector is to our Goto's.
Standing on the ladder, I'm calibrating the instrument and planetary positions with
ephemeris information, to begin working with the public at the museum."
"If your planetarium has anything like a program card then it is more fit for a public show
than ours. We have to do everything manually and according to "pre-learned" steps and
sequences. The intro of the recorded show has some cool electronic minutes or so
of getting the mood until the sun appears. Then we simulate sunset, the red dawn effect,
the apparition of the first stars, but we keep the skyglow lightly illuminated until we talk
about dark skies where everything goes pitch black and the wows start to be heard when
about maybe 700 stars appear to about mag 4. The whole thing lasts about 28 minutes
and eventually ends up with Holst's The Planet's music for each planet described and
proyected with the slide machine. A didactic teaching machine converted into a show
where nobody complains of gets bored is to us a great accomplishment!
- Eric Ramos"
Just wanted you to see how similar your planetarium projector is to our Goto's.
Standing on the ladder, I'm calibrating the instrument and planetary positions with
ephemeris information, to begin working with the public at the museum."
"If your planetarium has anything like a program card then it is more fit for a public show
than ours. We have to do everything manually and according to "pre-learned" steps and
sequences. The intro of the recorded show has some cool electronic minutes or so
of getting the mood until the sun appears. Then we simulate sunset, the red dawn effect,
the apparition of the first stars, but we keep the skyglow lightly illuminated until we talk
about dark skies where everything goes pitch black and the wows start to be heard when
about maybe 700 stars appear to about mag 4. The whole thing lasts about 28 minutes
and eventually ends up with Holst's The Planet's music for each planet described and
proyected with the slide machine. A didactic teaching machine converted into a show
where nobody complains of gets bored is to us a great accomplishment!
- Eric Ramos"
This site features some great images.