21 Oct
2013
21 Oct
'13
8:07 a.m.
Chuck, The impressive focal length of Mike's scope reminds me of what I read somewhere about "professional" astronomers of William Herschel's day basically assuming he was lying when he talked (casually) about using powers of 1000 and 1500x. I'm not sure which of Hershchel's big scopes that was--probably his, so called "40 foot"--which Mike's nearly equals; and clobbers in aperture! Is he giving out numbers for people to take a turn? ;-) John