Astronomical Equipment

"Ed" wrote

How about a 3-500Z?

KC9FAC

Nahh... a 6DQ6 in an old Johnson. ;^)

N7SO




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This was really prompted by the recent digital camera
vs. film discussions.

Hi:

How long have you been in this?

Do you remember Ramsden eyepieces with uncoated army surplus lens elements?

35 degree AFOVs?

Using these on the deep sky?

Pipe mounts?

Heavy, shaky newtonians that cost more than your old man made in a year?

Skalnate Pleso as your "deep" atlas?

ONE astronomy magazine and maybe a club newsletter a month?

A 12.5 inch as a HUGE, unbelievable telescope?

Mimeographed club newsletters that talked about CHALLENGE OBJECTS like the Veil
Nebula?

Praying they were serious when they advertised "1/4 wave"?

Dreaming of the impossible purchase of a 4 inch acrhomatic refractor? The one
that cost even more than the above newts?

NO such thing as buying a scope off the shelf unless it was a Tasco (which were
almost as bad then as now)?

Trying to shoot Jupiter with color slide film?

Being happy if you could make out craters on your Tri-X shots of the Moon you
took with a rangefinder camera?

Nostalgia is nostalgia, and if anybody wants to observe the old-fashioned way,
fine. There's not a right way to do this. It's whatever makes you happy. Me?
Give me all the goto, computers, and TV eyepieces I can handle. One look at the
Mars images I brought back (and the visual observatons I had) last summer and
I'm SURE I don't want to go back. ;-)



Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

This was really prompted by the recent digital camera
vs. film discussions.

Hi:

How long have you been in this?

Do you remember Ramsden eyepieces with uncoated army surplus lens elements?

35 degree AFOVs?

Using these on the deep sky?

Pipe mounts?

Heavy, shaky newtonians that cost more than your old man made in a year?

Skalnate Pleso as your "deep" atlas?

ONE astronomy magazine and maybe a club newsletter a month?

A 12.5 inch as a HUGE, unbelievable telescope?

Mimeographed club newsletters that talked about CHALLENGE OBJECTS like the Veil
Nebula?

Praying they were serious when they advertised "1/4 wave"?

Dreaming of the impossible purchase of a 4 inch acrhomatic refractor? The one
that cost even more than the above newts?

NO such thing as buying a scope off the shelf unless it was a Tasco (which were
almost as bad then as now)?

Trying to shoot Jupiter with color slide film?

Being happy if you could make out craters on your Tri-X shots of the Moon you
took with a rangefinder camera?

Nostalgia is nostalgia, and if anybody wants to observe the old-fashioned way,
fine. There's not a right way to do this. It's whatever makes you happy. Me?
Give me all the goto, computers, and TV eyepieces I can handle. One look at the
Mars images I brought back (and the visual observatons I had) last summer and
I'm SURE I don't want to go back. ;-)



Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

This was really prompted by the recent digital camera
vs. film discussions.

Hi:

How long have you been in this?

Do you remember Ramsden eyepieces with uncoated army surplus lens elements?

35 degree AFOVs?

Using these on the deep sky?

Pipe mounts?

Heavy, shaky newtonians that cost more than your old man made in a year?

Skalnate Pleso as your "deep" atlas?

ONE astronomy magazine and maybe a club newsletter a month?

A 12.5 inch as a HUGE, unbelievable telescope?

Mimeographed club newsletters that talked about CHALLENGE OBJECTS like the Veil
Nebula?

Praying they were serious when they advertised "1/4 wave"?

Dreaming of the impossible purchase of a 4 inch acrhomatic refractor? The one
that cost even more than the above newts?

NO such thing as buying a scope off the shelf unless it was a Tasco (which were
almost as bad then as now)?

Trying to shoot Jupiter with color slide film?

Being happy if you could make out craters on your Tri-X shots of the Moon you
took with a rangefinder camera?

Nostalgia is nostalgia, and if anybody wants to observe the old-fashioned way,
fine. There's not a right way to do this. It's whatever makes you happy. Me?
Give me all the goto, computers, and TV eyepieces I can handle. One look at the
Mars images I brought back (and the visual observatons I had) last summer and
I'm SURE I don't want to go back. ;-)



Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

Besides you and me, I wonder who else knows what a 6L6 is. I'm not a
musician
just an old ham buff.


Hi:

Me too. OTOH, we bought my son a little Traynor practice amp for Christmas.
INCREDIBLE sound and not a tube in sight!

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

Besides you and me, I wonder who else knows what a 6L6 is. I'm not a
musician
just an old ham buff.


Hi:

Me too. OTOH, we bought my son a little Traynor practice amp for Christmas.
INCREDIBLE sound and not a tube in sight!

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

Besides you and me, I wonder who else knows what a 6L6 is. I'm not a
musician
just an old ham buff.


Hi:

Me too. OTOH, we bought my son a little Traynor practice amp for Christmas.
INCREDIBLE sound and not a tube in sight!

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

How long have you been in this?
30 years.

Skalnate Pleso as your "deep" atlas?
Had that.

I view nebula filters as the most significant
advance in the last few decades, followed
by the newer star atlases (Sky Atlas 2000
& Uranometria). Also the Dobsonian, but I
view that as "anti-technology." At least in
the form John Dobson considers a "true" Dobsonian.
Although he dislikes the name Dobsonian. I've met
Dobson twice.

However, if I were given the choice between
a state-of-the-art modern telescope, and
an old Cave "Deluxe" 8" Newtonian, I would
take the Cave without hesitation.

How long have you been in this?
30 years.

Skalnate Pleso as your "deep" atlas?
Had that.

I view nebula filters as the most significant
advance in the last few decades, followed
by the newer star atlases (Sky Atlas 2000
& Uranometria). Also the Dobsonian, but I
view that as "anti-technology." At least in
the form John Dobson considers a "true" Dobsonian.
Although he dislikes the name Dobsonian. I've met
Dobson twice.

However, if I were given the choice between
a state-of-the-art modern telescope, and
an old Cave "Deluxe" 8" Newtonian, I would
take the Cave without hesitation.

How long have you been in this?
30 years.

Skalnate Pleso as your "deep" atlas?
Had that.

I view nebula filters as the most significant
advance in the last few decades, followed
by the newer star atlases (Sky Atlas 2000
& Uranometria). Also the Dobsonian, but I
view that as "anti-technology." At least in
the form John Dobson considers a "true" Dobsonian.
Although he dislikes the name Dobsonian. I've met
Dobson twice.

However, if I were given the choice between
a state-of-the-art modern telescope, and
an old Cave "Deluxe" 8" Newtonian, I would
take the Cave without hesitation.