Nice hood, professor! Also, I've been meaning to ask. Does your user name imply an interest (or expertise) in astronomy? Amateur astronomy has been a hobby and passion of mine since I was 10!
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Yes, since my early days in college. I had access to an observatory - poor location, but a true observatory - and I have a Newtonian 10 inch telescopes, a Mead DS10. a bit of a relic. Today was Hat Day at the school where I am teaching. I made it hat and hood day - giving new meaning to teaching in the hood. When I retire, I am trading the big scope for something smaller and with a computerized star finder. My patience isn't what it was when I was younger.
Nice! My interest began with monthly trips with my dad to the Goldendale WA observatory when I was a young lad. My first “real” scope as an adult was a 10” Newt on a dobsonian mount (the Orion XT10). This past summer I bought a used 17.5” Dob with setting circles and go-to, and even though it’s a bit of work to transport and set up, I’ve been loving the views from the dark skies in rural AZ. Glad to have another passionate amateur astronomer on here!
It’s fugly pipe time. GH&Co Dark Birds Eye in a McCraines panel billiard by Ashton.
A quarter of the way through this bowl of 1970s Prince Albert in an undated, unbranded straight smooth brown made in France Los Alton VBF Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Time to do another set of walking reps.
17.5 inches. That's a monster! Yeh, I bet it is a pain. Where in Arizona are you? I am one state over.
Tucson. I wanted the largest scope I could reasonably fit in an SUV, and move by myself. Someday when I'm a bit older, I won't be able/willing to move such a large scope around, so I wanted to live in big dob land while I could. And it helps that we have dark skies and some of the best observing conditions in the country!
If you're ever in the mood for some company, I do get out that way from time to time. I'd love to look at some POI if someone else is willing to do the set up, LOL.
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Comoy’s Cask #4 in a 1902 Peterson Patent Bulldog with Replacement Stem
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