Last night
15 February 2005 13:14![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denLast night I took some visitors to the Observatory. (frames, colour and marquee warning)
The night was clear and dark; perfect for looking through a 300mm (approx 12") Schmidt Cassegrain. We looked at Titan and the Cassini Gap in Saturn's rings, mountains on the moon, double stars, globular clusters and the Orion nebula. Finding things was easy with the computerised GOTO unit. He'd enter the number or name, and the scope would swing around to the spot.
And he had a green laser pointer to point at things. I want one. And one of these wouldn't go astray.
The night was clear and dark; perfect for looking through a 300mm (approx 12") Schmidt Cassegrain. We looked at Titan and the Cassini Gap in Saturn's rings, mountains on the moon, double stars, globular clusters and the Orion nebula. Finding things was easy with the computerised GOTO unit. He'd enter the number or name, and the scope would swing around to the spot.
And he had a green laser pointer to point at things. I want one. And one of these wouldn't go astray.
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Date: 15 Feb 2005 05:08 (UTC)Eventually sold the C8, but kept the 11x80s, which is still an exceptionally fine piece of optics.
That 12", now... Sweet!
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Date: 15 Feb 2005 06:13 (UTC):)
I still have my Tasco 4.5" from many years ago, but it's a bit small.