Alson Wong wrote:

"Littleboy" wrote in message
ews.com...
Well, to me it looked like an 8" Schmidt, maybe 10". Story concept was
OK, maybe. Planetary images sucked. But I did like the sound of the
scope slewing. And talk about a bright optical tube.

The planetary images were cartoonish, but M42 was fairly good: monochrome,
with a good amount of detail and a reasonable field of view.

The Schmidt she had in the van looked like 8-inches. The one he was
using later was about 4-inches. She was working the remote control box
on the larger scope while he was looking at the objects she chose.
However we didn't see her doing any polar alignment while setting up so
I guess we're to assume she got it very close. She made a reference to
Mars being the closest in 60K years so the scene was supposedly taking
place last fall. Did anyone notice if either scope was set up properly
for viewing in the D.C. area?


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