Re: Best Way to Remove Annoying Astronomer?

From: starlord (starlord_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:18:04 -0700

How good are they in finding Planets? or finding something that has just
been found? How good are they under the glare of street lights?

What if someone asks to see something by a name and they don't have the
catalog numbe for it?

I'm just asking, I once saw what amounted to a GoTo Dob, it was at the 87
RTMC I think, a guy had a very nice home made Dob and it was computer
controled, he had an Atari 800XL 2 1050 Disk Drives and a awefull bug
database of DSO's. He had not only built the scope, but had writen the
software and had done all the hardware that interfaced the computer with the
scope and no docs for all of it. But he did have to set it on the north star
first. 

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"rander3127" <rander3127@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:10:44 GMT, Paul Lawler
> <stargazer@kilolaniDOT.net> wrote:
>
> >John Beaderstadt <beadnot@pivot.nyet> wrote in
> >news:o1u1n0dcgvc5slping7f9rn7mjk5maeh85@4ax.com:
> >
> >> Especially the luddite who condemns anything
> >> that simplifies the hobby, or otherwise makes it more attractive to
> >> the general public.
> >
> >Sorry... but the fact that I generally prefer my large aperture,
portable,
> >simple to use Dob to my smaller aperture (not so portable and not so
simple
> >to use) GoTo scope does not make me a luddite.
>
> The simple fact is the Goto is the great equalizer.  Formerly,
> positions held by Dob fanatics and others who had learned
> and memorized the sky are no longer held is such high esteem.
> Joe Average can now find objects faster than they can.
> I think this made some of them subconciously think,
> "Hey, I worked for years to achieve my level of understanding
> of the sky, now some wippersnapper comes along and can
> do whatever I can without the effort."
> Alas, there is no justice.
>
>
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