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Observatory For Sale
My entire observatory and everything in it is offered for sale.
This includes the Astrophysics 1200 mount, 16" f4 newt, 10" f6 newt, 8" f5 newt and 4" f4 and rings for mounting any of them on the AP1200. Also included is the Starlight Xpress MX716/C CCD camera and just about everything else shown on my web site. For pictures and more info on the equipment and about 500 images taken with this equipment since 1995, browse http://schmidling.com/astro.htm I am asking $12,000 for the entire lot. Purchaser to pick up or pay shipping charges. Jack Schmidling Marengo, Illinois -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com |
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wrote in message oups.com... My entire observatory and everything in it is offered for sale. This includes the Astrophysics 1200 mount, 16" f4 newt, 10" f6 newt, 8" f5 newt and 4" f4 and rings for mounting any of them on the AP1200. Also included is the Starlight Xpress MX716/C CCD camera and just about everything else shown on my web site. For pictures and more info on the equipment and about 500 images taken with this equipment since 1995, browse http://schmidling.com/astro.htm I am asking $12,000 for the entire lot. Purchaser to pick up or pay shipping charges. Jack Schmidling Marengo, Illinois Jack, I visited your website many times the last couple of years and I enjoyed your work. I am sorry you hear to sell everything! -- md 10" LX200GPS-SMT ETX105 www.xs4all.nl/~martlian |
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md wrote:
Jack, I visited your website many times the last couple of years and I enjoyed your work. I am sorry you hear to sell everything! Well, I have been in this hobby since a child and doing serious stuff for the past 10 years. It may seem pompous but I sort of feel like I used up the sky. When one considers the local seeing, weather, mosquitoes etc, the return on time invested has reached the point of diminishing returns. To watch my wonderful stuff collect dust and deteriorate from lack of attention makes little sense. The mount has spoiled me to the point that any or all of my scopes are useless without it so it's either all or nothing. Thanks for the kind words but there are lots of other things to do with what time I have left on this planet. My current project is a hand tailored coat. Not much connection to astronomy but that has been the way my life goes. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com |
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wrote in message oups.com... md wrote: Jack, I visited your website many times the last couple of years and I enjoyed your work. I am sorry you hear to sell everything! Well, I have been in this hobby since a child and doing serious stuff for the past 10 years. It may seem pompous but I sort of feel like I used up the sky. When one considers the local seeing, weather, mosquitoes etc, the return on time invested has reached the point of diminishing returns. To watch my wonderful stuff collect dust and deteriorate from lack of attention makes little sense. The mount has spoiled me to the point that any or all of my scopes are useless without it so it's either all or nothing. Thanks for the kind words but there are lots of other things to do with what time I have left on this planet. My current project is a hand tailored coat. Not much connection to astronomy but that has been the way my life goes. Jack, makes sense. Enjoy ! -- md 10" LX200GPS-SMT ETX105 www.xs4all.nl/~martlian |
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On 17 Jun 2005 10:13:43 -0700, "
wrote: md wrote: Jack, I visited your website many times the last couple of years and I enjoyed your work. I am sorry you hear to sell everything! Well, I have been in this hobby since a child and doing serious stuff for the past 10 years. It may seem pompous but I sort of feel like I used up the sky. When one considers the local seeing, weather, mosquitoes etc, the return on time invested has reached the point of diminishing returns. To watch my wonderful stuff collect dust and deteriorate from lack of attention makes little sense. The mount has spoiled me to the point that any or all of my scopes are useless without it so it's either all or nothing. Thanks for the kind words but there are lots of other things to do with what time I have left on this planet. My current project is a hand tailored coat. Not much connection to astronomy but that has been the way my life goes. Ah, so this is why you haven't posted to rec.crafts.jewelry recently. You've moved to sewing! -- Marilee J. Layman |
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Marilee J. Layman wrote:
Ah, so this is why you haven't posted to rec.crafts.jewelry recently. You've moved to sewing! You are very astute. Yes but I still cut a stone now and then and made another chain a few weeks ago and my next project is to make my wife a martini glass(silver) like mine. As a point of interest, I got a terrible case of tennis elbow from pounding on silver. Sewing (tailoring) is an interesting study which I like to compare to the more masculine craft of woodworking. My shop contains about ten motorized machines that are almost required for every project. Only one machine is needed to construct an equally complex thing like the coat featured in the current Photo of the week. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com |
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wrote in message oups.com... My entire observatory and everything in it is offered for sale. This includes the Astrophysics 1200 mount, 16" f4 newt, 10" f6 newt, 8" f5 newt and 4" f4 and rings for mounting any of them on the AP1200. Also included is the Starlight Xpress MX716/C CCD camera and just about everything else shown on my web site. For pictures and more info on the equipment and about 500 images taken with this equipment since 1995, browse http://schmidling.com/astro.htm I am asking $12,000 for the entire lot. Purchaser to pick up or pay shipping charges. Jack Schmidling Marengo, Illinois Gone off the deep end Jack? Too many clouds all too often? |
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To JATO
This morning I found myself explaining to a participant here that it is the Earth rotating in and out of its orbital shadow rather than sunrise/sunset (which is the common currency among celestial cataloguers) and I assure you that you cannot get any worse than that. The Equation of Time principles which equalise Keplerian orbital motion in order to facilitate the isolation of axial rotation from its orbital motion was an exquisite outrigger developed by the early heliocentrists and spured the development of accurate clocks based on that motion. This man walks away from what he imagines is astronomy but it is really astrophotography he is walking away from, for no person or group of people would adhere to inferior and cartoon conceptions when you look out from the Earth and such things as what constitutes the value for constant axial rotation,without which it is impossible to do astronomy or much else where the motions of the Earth are concerned. Ultimately astronomers are born insofar as it is an intuitive gift therefore owning a telescope is a poor imitator in what it means to be part of the great sweeping history of astronomy stretching back to remote antiquity.No offense to JTaylor and many like him who know no better,genuine astronomy and disciplines where accurate descriptions of the Earth's motions are required are being starved by Newtonian quasi-geocentricity and relativistic homocentricity,the most anti-astronomy concepts ever to appear on the planet. Jack here should read the fiction of H.G. Wells and satisfy himself that he participated in an intellectual holocaust that reduced and diluted the highest faculties of human reasoning, which are always associated with astronomy, to a sci-fi and cartoon cataloguing/theoretical conceptions. No astronomer would stomach what passes under the astronomical name yet the incredible consensus which supports a fictional astronomical view owes much to Jack and fellow cataloguers.Whatever is left of his life,his output so far is to destroy appreciation of the heliocentric principles we inherited and so it goes for all anti-astronomy participants here. "'Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,' continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. 'Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it. But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea. You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?'" http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html |
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