RE: Member Photos
December 7, 2011 at 3:21 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2011 at 3:28 am by orogenicman.)
(December 6, 2011 at 4:20 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: You're killing me. Can I come play?
Any time!
(December 6, 2011 at 4:39 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(December 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Speaking of telescopes, have a look at our club's president standing next to a recent donation:
16" Meade SCT with a fork mounted LX200 controller. This scope costs abut $16,000. Hell of a donation, eh???
Nice. I've got a 10" LX200 SCT and love it - I can only imagine what 150% more light-gathering capability would look like. Then again - a 10" SCT already pushes the limits of portability.
That's why I went with the 8" enhanced Newtonian - much less expensive, more portal, faster optics, and it still has one of the best equatorial mounts for the money. That said, I'd love to have a 10" LX200 OTA on my mount. With a focal reducer/field flattener, it becomes a true astrophotography workhorse.
But for amateur observatory work, this 16" will be a loveable tyrant. And it is certainly anythjing but portable. They say it weighs about 275 lbs fully assembled. Can't wait to point it at Jupiter.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"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! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero