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Heartbreakers
Shot in April thru August of 2000, this movie stars Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt who falls in love with an amateur astronomer/bar owner/potential millionaire played by Jason Lee. Just shy of an hour into the film, the viewer will find Jason and Jennifer on a dark beach where what appears to be a Celestron 4" refractor is set up. When she inquires into what he looks at through it, he directs her to the eyepiece where he tells her the Crab Nebula awaits. She looks through the little refractor and is rewarded with a beautiful, technicolor view of Messier 1. . .blue, green, gold, and red are all in abundance. Then he mentions the globular cluster Messier 13 and directs her to look through the eyepiece again and without any apparent movement ot the scope she once more takes to the eyepiece. Now she sees an oval shaped mess which displays perfectly evenly spaced and identically sized clods of stars from edge to edge. It looked like a sketch drawn by a lousy artist. The scene ends shortly after he produces a piece of paper and while glancing at it remarks that perhaps Corona Borealis is visible. It would seem to me that Jason Lee got far more than his money's worth out of the scope on Messier 1 and far less than his money's worth on Messier 13. Hopefully, he realized that the scope wasn't necessary to view Corona Borealis. ;o) ;o) ;o) -- Martin R. Howell "Photographs From the Universe of Amateur Astronomy" http://members.isp.com/universeofama...nomy%40isp.com |
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Sounds like a good movie to skip. Unfortunately, there will be people in
department stores looking for scopes to give them the same view of M1. Clear Skies Chuck Taylor Do you observe the moon? Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/ Are you interested in understanding optics? Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATM_Optics_Software/ ************************************ "Martin R. Howell" wrote in message news Shot in April thru August of 2000, this movie stars Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt who falls in love with an amateur astronomer/bar owner/potential millionaire played by Jason Lee. Just shy of an hour into the film, the viewer will find Jason and Jennifer on a dark beach where what appears to be a Celestron 4" refractor is set up. When she inquires into what he looks at through it, he directs her to the eyepiece where he tells her the Crab Nebula awaits. She looks through the little refractor and is rewarded with a beautiful, technicolor view of Messier 1. . .blue, green, gold, and red are all in abundance. Then he mentions the globular cluster Messier 13 and directs her to look through the eyepiece again and without any apparent movement ot the scope she once more takes to the eyepiece. Now she sees an oval shaped mess which displays perfectly evenly spaced and identically sized clods of stars from edge to edge. It looked like a sketch drawn by a lousy artist. The scene ends shortly after he produces a piece of paper and while glancing at it remarks that perhaps Corona Borealis is visible. It would seem to me that Jason Lee got far more than his money's worth out of the scope on Messier 1 and far less than his money's worth on Messier 13. Hopefully, he realized that the scope wasn't necessary to view Corona Borealis. ;o) ;o) ;o) -- Martin R. Howell "Photographs From the Universe of Amateur Astronomy" http://members.isp.com/universeofama...nomy%40isp.com |
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Martin R. Howell wrote:
Shot in April thru August of 2000, this movie stars Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt who falls in love with an amateur astronomer/bar owner/potential millionaire played by Jason Lee. Just shy of an hour into the film, the viewer will find Jason and Jennifer on a dark beach where what appears to be a Celestron 4" refractor is set up. When she inquires into what he looks at through it, he directs her to the eyepiece where he tells her the Crab Nebula awaits. She looks through the little refractor and is rewarded with a beautiful, technicolor view of Messier 1. . .blue, green, gold, and red are all in abundance. Then he mentions the globular cluster Messier 13 and directs her to look through the eyepiece again and without any apparent movement ot the scope she once more takes to the eyepiece. Now she sees an oval shaped mess which displays perfectly evenly spaced and identically sized clods of stars from edge to edge. It looked like a sketch drawn by a lousy artist. The scene ends shortly after he produces a piece of paper and while glancing at it remarks that perhaps Corona Borealis is visible. It would seem to me that Jason Lee got far more than his money's worth out of the scope on Messier 1 and far less than his money's worth on Messier 13. Hopefully, he realized that the scope wasn't necessary to view Corona Borealis. ;o) ;o) ;o) Anyone wanna guess how much Celestron paid to place that scope in the movie? I bet you could buy several 16" RCX's with it or at least a couple of big Tak APO's tM ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Two words: artistic license. Besides, women tend to see things
differently on windswept beaches especially if there's a chill in the night air ;-) Martin R. Howell wrote: Shot in April thru August of 2000, this movie stars Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt who falls in love with an amateur astronomer/bar owner/potential millionaire played by Jason Lee. Just shy of an hour into the film, the viewer will find Jason and Jennifer on a dark beach where what appears to be a Celestron 4" refractor is set up. When she inquires into what he looks at through it, he directs her to the eyepiece where he tells her the Crab Nebula awaits. She looks through the little refractor and is rewarded with a beautiful, technicolor view of Messier 1. . .blue, green, gold, and red are all in abundance. Then he mentions the globular cluster Messier 13 and directs her to look through the eyepiece again and without any apparent movement ot the scope she once more takes to the eyepiece. Now she sees an oval shaped mess which displays perfectly evenly spaced and identically sized clods of stars from edge to edge. It looked like a sketch drawn by a lousy artist. The scene ends shortly after he produces a piece of paper and while glancing at it remarks that perhaps Corona Borealis is visible. It would seem to me that Jason Lee got far more than his money's worth out of the scope on Messier 1 and far less than his money's worth on Messier 13. Hopefully, he realized that the scope wasn't necessary to view Corona Borealis. ;o) ;o) ;o) |
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That hits uncomfortably close to home! ;-)
-- Dawn Baird-Chleborad www.wodenoptics.com www.astronerds.com "Tim Killian" wrote in message ... Two words: artistic license. Besides, women tend to see things differently on windswept beaches especially if there's a chill in the night air ;-) |
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Tim Killian wrote:
Two words: artistic license. Besides, women tend to see things differently on windswept beaches especially if there's a chill in the night air ;-) Jennifer Love Hewitt on the beach with a chill in the air? That might make the rest of the movie worth it. :-) Shawn |
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:31:46 -0800, "CLT" not@thisaddress wrote:
Sounds like a good movie to skip. Unfortunately, there will be people in department stores looking for scopes to give them the same view of M1. I know five Questars that sold because of the movie, "Body Double." -Rich |
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"Martin R. Howell" wrote in message
news It would seem to me that Jason Lee got far more than his money's worth out of the scope on Messier 1 and far less than his money's worth on Messier 13. Hopefully, he realized that the scope wasn't necessary to view Corona Borealis. You mean, you didn't opt for the advanced amplifying coatings? Cheapskate!!! -- Hilton Evans --------------------------------------------------------------- ChemPen Chemical Structure Software http://www.chempensoftware.com |
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