What was your first "real" scope?
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Here is a review of the wonderful instrument by noted telescope enthusiast Ed Ting, wobbly equatorial mount and all!
https://www.scopereviews.com/page1x.html
Like the catalog said, it was an ideal instrument for serious amateurs and "quality-minded" beginners. What was your first "real" scope???
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It had a flimsy wooden, "folding" tripod and came with one eyepiece that looked to me like a piece of a broken Coke bottle. I seem to recall a fellow named "Galileo" used to drop by to borrow it, saying he was going to discover Jupiter... or something like that.
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When I was 12, for Christmas, my mom got me a red cardboard tubed reflector - it was on a long red cardboard mount, with plastic feet attached to the bottom. I do not remember brand, size, etc. (Actually looks a lot like the one in your ad photo - but the mount was red cardboard, and there was no counter-weight).
Later in life, I bought a Celestron FirstScope 114 Short Tube - an
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Back then I only knew about the planets and the Moon. So that was all it was used for but it did set me on a course to do this the rest of my life.
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In 1975, I was using a 40-cm
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40mm Newt, no kidding! What was the central obstruction on it?John Baars wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:17 pm
A 6 cm f/15 refractor. On its back a 4 cm (!) Newton from the departement store. I thought that looked "cool" in those days.
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One square centimeter. Rectangular, so 10X10 mm in the lightpath. Not so bad.....25%. Spherical 40mm
A toy really. But it was all I had when I was a boy. No money for a ( in those days supercostly) 4.5 inch Newton.
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John spoke at one of our meetings in Adelaide: I remember him charging up and done the aisles throwing copies of his notes to all and sundry, and then bouncing up to sit on the counter at the front of the theatre (he was about 85 then!) to speak. He thought the Big Bang was nonsense, and was a proponent of a sort of "continuous creation", which I think fitted with his Buddhist background (for those who don't know, he was at one stage a Buddhist monk, but he was apparently kicked out of the monastery for disobeying rules, like sneaking out to show people the stars). Definitely a character!helicon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:21 pm Great story @starfield - I later on (age 14) worked with Dobson himself when I made my 8" f/6 Dob, too. I even bumped into him at national parks well into the 2000's - first time at the Yellowstone Visitor center and second time at the Death Valley visitor center. He'd lecture the tourists and then take out a couple of his scopes, which he moved around in an old VW bus. In his talks he closed with the fact that he didn't really believe in the Big Bang, so he was definitely a unique (and charming) individual.
But I digress: my first "real" astronomical scope (other than a 25x30mm Tasco pull-out scope) was a 10" f5.6
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My first "real" scope was bought in the 1980's and was a 6 inch
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