You know you're getting old when

.... your children can split doubles at lower magnifications
than you can.

But it's still fun observing with them :-)

--
Glenn Holliday

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

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

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

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