Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Jul 16, 2004 1:04:56 GMT -6
After a evening of working on the Chevelle, I noticed the darkening skies and saw that it was clear. The night was pleasant and I didn't feel like setting up the 4.5", so I dragged out a 60mm refractor and just causually looked here and there. Sitting on an upturned bucket, I had a good time just looking at the differences in color and magnitudes of the stars.
No attempting to resolve binaries, no nebuli searching, no serious stuff at all.....just looking at random. It brought me back to my kidhood when I was armed with a 60mm in much darker Chicago skies, before the days of Mercury Vapor. I did not use high power, but used a 7x - wide angle FOV adapted binocular eyepice retrofitted to fit the .096 focuser.
I spent an hour and a half with the simple 60mm, primarily within the Summer Triangle, and must say, had quite a good time.
And even with this simple scope, it is a better instrument that what Galileo had to work with, And yet he saw that the church's view of the universe was wrong. What a mind!
Sometimes the simple things are more fun.
No attempting to resolve binaries, no nebuli searching, no serious stuff at all.....just looking at random. It brought me back to my kidhood when I was armed with a 60mm in much darker Chicago skies, before the days of Mercury Vapor. I did not use high power, but used a 7x - wide angle FOV adapted binocular eyepice retrofitted to fit the .096 focuser.
I spent an hour and a half with the simple 60mm, primarily within the Summer Triangle, and must say, had quite a good time.
And even with this simple scope, it is a better instrument that what Galileo had to work with, And yet he saw that the church's view of the universe was wrong. What a mind!
Sometimes the simple things are more fun.
