28 Sep
2004
28 Sep
'04
12:10 p.m.
I seem to remember many years back a star party up by Kamas where Brent's monster scope ended up catching a frisbee or two. But then I seem to also remember that later in the day the scope became a chimney when sunlight found its way to the primary mirror and smoke was seen emanating from the tube... Patrick Chuck Hards wrote:
Don't be so sure; I've seen many telescopes (present company excepted, of course) that may as well have been trash-cans...
--- John and Lisa Zeigler <john@johnstelescopes.com> >
Solid tube Newtonian telescopes, no matter how much they look like
trash cans or basket ball hoops are not for throwing things into..