CNN - Cat and Binos - Hurry

Lead story picture has solder looking thru binos next to a cat. Is it
Mak or SCT? Doubtful he's going for Mars low on the horizon.

www.cnn.com

On 27 Jul 2003 18:43:33 GMT, (Rod Mollise) wrote:

Lead story picture has solder looking thru binos next to a cat. Is it
Mak or SCT? Doubtful he's going for Mars low on the horizon.



Hi:

I dunno. Web url?

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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http://www.cnn.com

Looks like an SCT.

Rod, do you know if it's Celeston that supplies the armed forces?

Tom T.


On 27 Jul 2003 18:43:33 GMT, (Rod Mollise) wrote:

Lead story picture has solder looking thru binos next to a cat. Is it
Mak or SCT? Doubtful he's going for Mars low on the horizon.



Hi:

I dunno. Web url?

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

I couldn't catch the photo. It must have changed in the time since you
posted the message.

I do know that Questar has a GSA contract with the government for a 3.5"
field telescope.

http://www.questar-corp.com/fieldranger.htm

Could that be what you saw?

Likely the proverbial $500 toilet seat of telescopes :-)

Michael Wood wrote:
Since they removed it from the website so quickly, I just posted it to
alt.binaries.pictures.astro. The more I look at it, the more it looks
like a C5 to me.

Mike

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:35:16 GMT, "William Schneider"
wrote:


I couldn't catch the photo. It must have changed in the time since you
posted the message.

I do know that Questar has a GSA contract with the government for a 3.5"
field telescope.

http://www.questar-corp.com/fieldranger.htm

Could that be what you saw?

Couldn't find the photo but I remember reading somewhere last year that the
military purchased quit a number of C5s. I believe a lot of the hummers and
armored personal carriers have them.

Well, they SHOULD! :-)


Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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I'd go with the "damaged" idea. Also, a half bino can peer
through a small opening, maintaining concealment.

"Brian Sturges" wrote in
message ...
I could'nt get past wondering why the solder was using the
binos with one
objective cap still on. Binos damaged in combat? One-eyed
solder? The
scope did look like a standard black-tube Celestron.

Michael Wood wrote in message
...
Lead story picture has solder looking thru binos next to
a cat. Is it
Mak or SCT? Doubtful he's going for Mars low on the
horizon.

A number of years ago before I got into astronomy I was in an Army unit that
had Celestron SCT's. If I had to guess now what size they were, I'd say 11".
Could have been 8". They seemed large to me at the time. Our scout teams used
them for spotting the enemy. They also had CCD imagers & thermal optics which
were cool to play around with. I remember a couple of guys saying how cool it
was to look at Haley's Comet with the SCT's. I only got to see it naked eye
unfornately. In my unit now, I take the younger guys out to star gaze with
night vision goggles. It's a great alternative purpose for Uncle Sam's gear.

Ralph
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