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You know you're getting old when
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You know you're getting old when
Glenn Holliday wrote:
... your children can split doubles at lower magnifications than you can. .... or, when the view in a dirt-cheap EP looks the same to you as the view in expensive one, because the worst part of the optic is your eye, :-( - Alex |
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You know you're getting old when
It's too late in summer, too cold in the winter, and too often just a
few big clouds that keep you from observing... "Why, when I was your age, I walked a mile with my scope, stood in 3 foot high drifts of snow, and stayed outside for hours with only a sweater on observing Jupiter moon transits..." Larry Stedman Vestal |
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You know you're getting old when
I got you beat! When I was your age, I walked a mile carrying my 18 inch DOB
on my back and a F20 APO Refractor under my arm and observed all night in -20 degree below zero weather wearing only a tee shirt! :-) "Larry Stedman" wrote in message ... It's too late in summer, too cold in the winter, and too often just a few big clouds that keep you from observing... "Why, when I was your age, I walked a mile with my scope, stood in 3 foot high drifts of snow, and stayed outside for hours with only a sweater on observing Jupiter moon transits..." Larry Stedman Vestal |
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You know you're getting old when
Mij Adyaw wrote: I got you beat! When I was your age, I walked a mile carrying my 18 inch DOB on my back and a F20 APO Refractor under my arm and observed all night in -20 degree below zero weather wearing only a tee shirt! :-) And of cours, the next morning they found a frozen replica of you. "Larry Stedman" wrote in message ... It's too late in summer, too cold in the winter, and too often just a few big clouds that keep you from observing... "Why, when I was your age, I walked a mile with my scope, stood in 3 foot high drifts of snow, and stayed outside for hours with only a sweater on observing Jupiter moon transits..." Larry Stedman Vestal |
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