Re: Adieu, and thanks, Ed Ting

From: Stephen Paul (smarshallpaul_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:44:31 -0500

Bill Meyers wrote:
> I learned from the Astromart Equipment forum group that Ed Ting is
> retiring from telescope reviews. I checked his web site and I find
> this to be true. This is a big loss for amateur astronomy. It is
> clearly the best review site and many amateurs benefited from reading
> his astute and frank comments, msking much better equipment choices.
> I am told that a contributing factor to his doing far fewer reviews
> in the last couple of years was a threatened lawasuit from
> the manufacturer of a corrector lens assembly.
> Maybe Ed will return to reviewing some time. His reviews were a
> really crative contribution to amateur astronomy.
> Bill Meyers
>
>

I'm sure for Ed it was a lot of fun while it lasted, but he got sloppy.
That's probably not going to be popular commentary.

-SPaul

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