the insanity has commenced...

Just ordered a Telrad and 9x50 right angle correct image finder. Will
probably pawn the family silverware and stamp collection to begin
building the eyepiece collection, then sell kidney and plasma for the
SCT I'm lusting after. Will probably be living beneath an underpass when
the wife gets fed up with my addiction.

Ugh, online ordering makes this waaaay too easy.

--
Jay Swartzfeger
http://www.swartzfeger.com
Scottsdale, AZ

then sell kidney and plasma for the SCT I'm lusting after. Will probably be
living beneath an underpass

It doesn't usually come to that Jay, have you no children you could sell ?
jc

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"john carruthers" wrote:

then sell kidney and plasma for the SCT I'm lusting after. Will probably be
living beneath an underpass

It doesn't usually come to that Jay, have you no children you could sell ?
jc

Thanks to everyone for lending a sympathetic ear.

No kids, but I do have two dachshunds that bark at my 10" Dob because
they think it's an intruder at night.

And thanks/curses to the person that posted the astromart link.
Astronomy classifieds, yay, now I can file for chapter 11! I'm already
hooked on it -- I can't stand all the garbage you have to sift through
on ebay just to find relevant listings.

--
Jay Swartzfeger
Scottsdale, AZ

"Jay Swartzfeger" wrote in message
...

And thanks/curses to the person that posted the astromart link.
Astronomy classifieds, yay, now I can file for chapter 11! I'm already
hooked on it -- I can't stand all the garbage you have to sift through
on ebay just to find relevant listings.

Used wisely, Astromart can help you try a lot of different equipment without
too much expense (loss). It certainly beats buying stuff new, and then
finding out you don't really like it. After a few years of buying, selling,
and trading, you will start to gravitate toward your favorite equipment
designs, and the instanity will slow down to a crawl. Once you are sure what
you like, you can go ahead and buy the more expensive stuff with a
reasonable level of confidence that you're not going to want to turn around
and sell it in 6 months (or less).

My recommendation is to try out the different types of mounts before you
start shopping for that perfect telescope. Some people prefer Dobsonian
mounts, others GEMs, and others altazimuth tripod mounts. Then there's DSCs
and GoTo to consider.

Some scopes lend themselves better to specific mount types, so it's worth
the effort to understand this as well. For example, a wide field refractor
is just as happy on an altazimuth mount as it is on a GoTo or simple clock
driven GEM, a large Newtonian OTA is best on a Dobsonian mount, where
shorter tubes can be used on a GEM without too much hassle. A long focal
length SCT or a Mak is happier either on a GEM (with or without GoTo), or on
a GoTo Fork (with or without a wedge). A long focal length refractor pretty
much demands a GEM with clock drive.

Regardless of how much you read about equipment, until you've experienced
something in every day use over a period of weeks or months, you really
can't "know" what it's like to live with it. Unfortunately, even attending
star parties isn't sufficient exposure, unless you go faithfully to every
outing over a period of many, many months, or years, and get the hands on
experience.

"Jay Swartzfeger" wrote in message
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Ugh, online ordering makes this waaaay too easy.

www.astromart.com

There, now you're really in trouble. ;-)

Wait untill you find out that you need to order more accessories to
effectively use the ones you just ordered. Its a never ending cycle

Jay Swartzfeger:

Just ordered a Telrad and 9x50 right angle correct image finder. Will
probably pawn the family silverware and stamp collection to begin
building the eyepiece collection, then sell kidney and plasma for the
SCT I'm lusting after. Will probably be living beneath an underpass when
the wife gets fed up with my addiction.

Ugh, online ordering makes this waaaay too easy.

Silverware? You got silverware!? We eat with home-made wooden utensils.

Stamp collection? You got a stamp collection!? The only stamps we got
are /food/ stamps.

Sell the wife.

Living with your 'scope beneath an underpass seems like a great idea --
keeps the 'scope ready for use while protecting it from the elements.

Davoud

--
usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

Davoud wrote:
Jay Swartzfeger:


Just ordered a Telrad and 9x50 right angle correct image finder. Will
probably pawn the family silverware and stamp collection to begin
building the eyepiece collection, then sell kidney and plasma for the
SCT I'm lusting after. Will probably be living beneath an underpass when
the wife gets fed up with my addiction.

Ugh, online ordering makes this waaaay too easy.


Silverware? You got silverware!? We eat with home-made wooden utensils.

Stamp collection? You got a stamp collection!? The only stamps we got
are /food/ stamps.

Sell the wife.

Just rent the wife. There's a reason that profession's been around so
long. ;-)

Shawn

Davoud wrote:
Jay Swartzfeger:


Just ordered a Telrad and 9x50 right angle correct image finder. Will
probably pawn the family silverware and stamp collection to begin
building the eyepiece collection, then sell kidney and plasma for the
SCT I'm lusting after. Will probably be living beneath an underpass when
the wife gets fed up with my addiction.

Ugh, online ordering makes this waaaay too easy.


Silverware? You got silverware!? We eat with home-made wooden utensils.


What? You are using utensils? You can sell home-made wooden utensils
as crafts and use the money toward the next Pentax XW!

"Jay Swartzfeger" wrote in message
...
Just ordered a Telrad and 9x50 right angle correct image finder. Will
probably pawn the family silverware and stamp collection to begin
building the eyepiece collection, then sell kidney and plasma for the
SCT I'm lusting after. Will probably be living beneath an underpass when
the wife gets fed up with my addiction.

Ugh, online ordering makes this waaaay too easy.

--
Jay Swartzfeger
http://www.swartzfeger.com
Scottsdale, AZ

The one who dies with the most eyepieces wins.