Re: Tempting the Weather Gods

Last night I was going to set it up at home, but getting out of the car I
twisted my left knee and that's a very bad thing for me. Had to limp in and
take some asprin to lessen the pain, I turned off the tv and dozed off in
the living room, by the time I woke up, old sol was peaking his head over
the east. So I'm taking it easy today so that I can get up there tonight.
Now if I had owned the one car I saw and liked last night, I could take both
scopes up to my hiden viewing spot that's about 12 miles outside of town and
run a test with them. But dang it, the guy just wouldn't trade his 1973
caddy fleetwood for my car. :<



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"Phil Wheeler" <w6tuh-ng7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Dennis,
>
> I skipped over your post on first scan, thinking it was another
> religion-related philosophical msg ("Weather Gods") :-)
>
> Let us know how the optical performance compares with the Babylon 8 after
> you've had time to use it more. I suspect it will be more fussy about
> collimiation, being f/5 (I think!), but should be better for DSOs (10" vs.
> 8") .. if you have a dark enough location (likely near FF is not all that
> dark!).
>
> Did you get a chance to turn to toward M42? It looked pretty good last
> night from my light-polluted skies with a 90mm Mak-Cass; should be
> fantastic with your 10" dob!
>
> Phil


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