[meteorite-list] AD: Meteoroites and Books at Ebay

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 11 03:26:09 2006
Message-ID: <009a01c6ed06$22086500$b8cc5ec8_at_0019110394>

Hello again Walter, Moni, and the "Bigger is Better" crowd,

Such a nice refractor is in my dreams (if given a choice over that and even
an 'Obsession')! Now I'm wondering how a measly $2 grand is going to help
you if those are the videos you are looking at. While your in the mood,
here some food, I wanted to show you my other two telescopes (The telescope
had a T-shroud on that said I'm with stupid and an arrow, which I did my
best not to align with):

18 or 20" too much for now, tsk! They're just toys. How about something
with the glass of 30 ordinary twenty-inchers?:

1. "The Emperor Ming the Merciless" (on a German Equatorial Mount, of
course, to deliver a continuous punch back to rogue Moonlings messing with
our minds by mingling with the reflectors on the Moon).
http://www.diogenite.com/Bigger.JPG

2. Or, "my" ~400 inch "Truss-Tube Dream" scope. (My head is at the base of
the vertical truss in the foreground for scale.) You know, pull four square
meters out of the primary and there's no noticeable loss. Check out the
secondary while you're on a roll. Lucky there's no conventional eyepiece
necessary. I wouldn't want be the first to cook his cornea off stray light
from Andromeda. The grinding is just spherical. The secondary deconvolutes
it all into focus if you can take my word on that...what an elegant solution
by mathematicians to such a big problem...
http://www.diogenite.com/Biggest.JPG

Aperture reminds me a whole lot of meteorites. Never enough for all the
times. And one always wants more, bigger, better shaped. Still collecting
Micromounts? :-)

Here's a tip from Dave Kriege, that naughty salesman: "Step 3: Consider the
impact your proposed telescope could have on your life. Talk too your
spouse, your kids, and your friends. Does it fit the way you live? If you
have doubts, reduce the planned aperture by one-third and repeat this
step." -Kriege & Berry, The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for
Building Large Aperture Telescopes, p. 45. (1997)
Best wishes, Doug



----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Branch" <waltbranch_at_bellsouth.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Meteoroites and Books at Ebay


> Hola Doug,
>
> Yea, I have it bad.
> I want to see structure in M51 and I want NGC 457 to really look like ET
> (actually, it does in my 4.7 inch refractor). And those so-called canals
on
> Mars...
>
> Spirit. Opportunity. Beagle-2. I'm with you guys!
> Well, maybe not Beagle-2.
>
> Have you ever seen the video which David Krieg has produced for his
> Obsession scopes. I viewed it and it started me down that slippery slope.
> Oh man...
>
> On the other end of the spectrum, I looked through my first small
refractor
> APO recently. Have you ever looked through an APO refractor? Oh man...
>
> 18?" 20?" Just too big.
> (for now, anyway, - he he)
>
> Almost forgot: "meteorites"
>
> -Walter
> ________________________
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MexicoDoug" <MexicoDoug_at_aim.com>
> To: "Walter Branch" <waltbranch_at_bellsouth.net>; "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Meteoroites and Books at Ebay
>
>
> > "Please help me. I have recently been diagnosed with a disease called
> > "aperture fever" in the astronomical community and I need a cure. You
> > can
> > help. A 16 inch truss-tube Dobsonian telescope would effect a cure but
I
> > need to raise 2k."
> >
> > Walter, I really felt a little wave of fear starting as I read your
email
> > halfway through the first sentence. Luckily, you're not in physical
> > danger
> > so far. Careful around some of us as you have a rampantly contagious
> > condition. I question your "cure" to these cravings. Since when is
> > giving
> > a junkie a two kilos of dough to see otherwise invisible stardust which
> > are
> > just figments of others' imaginations? You're just gonna get in deeper.
> >
> > Think an 18"er, but I bet you could figure out how to pack a 20" into
your
> > vehicle, though you better break out more of the collection and start
> > saving
> > up for a trailer as this is where your disease leads once the symptoms
are
> > full-blown. Many people do cure aperture fever with a diameter in the
> > 20's,
> > though. They break their backs and then discover the wonders of being
> > able
> > to set up a 3.5 inchers with playful ease...good luck and clear skies!
I
> > know two others on this list who are controlling as best as they can the
> > "fever".
> > Doug
> >
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