That sounds pretty neat Steve. I was to Maine when I was a kid. I still think it would be a neat place to live because of the isolation.
If you do any astrophotography, I'd like to see it. Tom C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sharpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Photos of Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis > At 9:21 PM -0600 10/27/01, aimcompute wrote: > >What kind of telescope do you have Steve? Astronomy is a hobby of mine on a > >par with photography, except I don't have the hardware. I live in a primo > >dark-sky location, virtually no neighbors, about 4500' elevation, have a > >flat spot on the edge of a drop-off about 50 yards from the house and would > >love to set up an observatory, dome and all, sometime. > > I have four telescopes. :^) > > The one I use the most is a 10" Meade Starfinder newtonian that I > bought two years ago. For planets and astrophotography I have a > Celestron 5 (one of the old orange ones). My home made 8" newtonian > serves only as a back up now, and I keep the 50mm Tasco refractor > that my parents bought me thirty years ago out of sentimentality. > > To be honest you don't need much equipment to enjoy astronomy. A good > pair of binoculars would be sufficient. My (East German vintage) > Zeiss 7X50s probably see more use than my telescopes! > > I live about five miles outside of a small town on the Maine coast. > It's on a hillside in a small subdivision (ten houses now). When the > neighbours turn their door lights off it is very dark. I have > pondered an observatory for many years. They are expensive, though. > This summer I built the next best thing: a 6' high wooden board fence > enclosing a 10' square section of my property. I hinged the top 3' of > each side so I could fold them down and see the sky down to the > horizon when needed. Now, I can observe in privacy, sheltered from > the wind and the local lights. It's probably the best astronomical > investment I have ever made. > > Astronomy is my primary hobby...photography would be #2. > -- > Steve > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
