Re: Contentment

From: Terry B (bohlsen_at_nospam.northnet.com.au)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:47:57 +1000

"Stephen Paul" <spaul219@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cljclg$hdd$1@transfer.stratus.com...
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> "Martin R. Howell" <martinhowell@ilikestarsearthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:1aaje0non447c.18olssl4fveb8.dlg@40tude.net...
>> Want to appreciate your biggest scope more and quell aperture fever?
>> Periodically use your smallest telescope exclusively for four to six week
>> intervals. Works for me.
>>
>
> Or, just have something small that you use regularly, with your definition
> of a big scope for use as time and circumstance permits.
>
> I don't know how anyone can have just one scope, unless it's small enough
> to carry out back in one trip with virtually zero cooldown time, and
> without need for charts. Something that you can walk out with 30-50x
> eyepiece in place, and just poke around at the showpiece targets, the
> moon, and with which you can see planets with some surface detail at 120x.
>

I only have 1 scope and don't wish for another. I can only look through 1
scope at a time and mine seems to fit the bill. (a vixen VC200L). It would
be nice to be able to see deeper but that is what my CCD does instead.

Terry B
Moree
Australia

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