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ASTRO: Stellafane people: John Dobson and Art C
My friend and star party companion Art C talking to John "You can't get
something from nothing!" Dobson. .....and if you don't know who John Dobson is: "May your Dobsonian Telescope turn back into a pumpkin at midnight!!" John is 92 years old now, and a little frail compared to the guy I first met in 1995, but then I'm not in as good a shape either! John claims that he will live to 110 - one year for each Messier Object! In 1997 John and I spent about an hour or so looking at some of my CCD images on a PC. John was very interested and had lots of comments on various objects, but my favorite comment was: ".....but if you want to know what the Universe looks like, you gotta *look* thru a telescope!" Maybe that's why I spend as much time on visual observing as imaging. George N |
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ASTRO: Stellafane people: John Dobson and Art C
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, George Normandin wrote: John claims that he will live to 110 - one year for each Messier Object! Good target! -- Aidan Karley, Aberdeen, Scotland Written at Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:43 +0100, but posted later. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 |
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ASTRO: Stellafane people: John Dobson and Art C
"Aidan Karley" wrote
John claims that he will live to 110 - one year for each Messier Object! Good target! Every year they give a prize to the youngest and oldest attendees at Stellafane. They usually exclude Dobson, but this year he was beat by a guy who was 94 years old! He claimed to have been going to the Convention off-and-on since the early 1950's. Last year I had a guy in his late 80's show up at my scope and he even climbed the ladder for a few objects. I expect my observing days will be long over if I ever make 80..... or 90...... George N |
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