(October 19, 2011 at 8:50 am)leo-rcc Wrote: This is one of mine from long ago:
(October 19, 2011 at 5:35 am)orogenicman Wrote: I didn't do this art work (the galaxy did). I just documented it with my telescope:
A friend of mine got this today:
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Nice work, Leo. That is an interesting Dobsonian design. Never saw one quite like that one. Don't quite understand why, if they were going to use a truss design, that they left so much of the OTA at the bottom. Truss designs are generally used to reduce weight. However, by leaving so much of the tube assembly intact, I suspect they didn't save much, if any, weight. I could be wrong, of course. I bet it gives great views, though, and having a 'go to' makes life much easier as well.
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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