brentwood
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For the very first time ever, tonight, on TV, the show 'Vanished', the hero was using some binoculars to spy on the bad guys, the camera showed the view through the binoculars. There were the bad guys, in the middle, surrounded, not by a sideways 'eight' blackout, but a perfect circle!!
Finally! or do you think Joe lunchbucket will think the hero is using a telescope and get all confused?
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photonovore
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No, but Joe Briefcase might... 
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brentwood
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What I'm referring to here is the common Hollywood practice of showing a binocular view as two side by side circles, overlapping in the middle, kind of like a sideways 8.As an avid binocular land & sky viewer, this has always annoyed me. In this show last night, they showed the view correctly as a single circle. This , I think, is the first time I'd ever seen this.
'Joe Lunchbucket' or 'Joe Briefcase' is just my term for the average, non binocular fan viewer!
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Ridiculous binocular collection
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photonovore
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Oh I understood your point alright...the hourglass bino views on the tube & movies are pretty famous true enough!  My post was just a knock at the often overlooked class prejudices re; intelligence such monikers evoke is all. I always wondered why a mythical character was never invented by the media to represent white collar ineptitude... 
Anyway, glad to see Hollywood catching on to optical instrument realities! Maybe someday we'll see someone using an astronomical telescope in a non sci-fi movie?! 
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refractory
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Or correctly? In the recently aired 'They Came From Outer Space' the local astronomer/author is out in the back yard with his girl with the funkiest looking focus setup you'd ever see on a refractor- it looked like TWO diagonals set up in a pattern so that the view ended up parallel to the original. No eyepiece apparently either. I guess this guru didn't need one, since he seemed to be looking ABOVE the OTA anyway. Dead reckoning?
I've noticed a number of protagonists in Sci Fi movies that didn't seem to know which end was up on astro equipment. Probably wouldn't fare any better on musical instruments.
Jess Tauber
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brentwood
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I always wonder when the movies show someone using a telescope in an observatory, how they are able to see anything as they always have all the lights on!
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Big telescope.Small telescopes.
Ridiculous binocular collection
I've cut it twice and it's still too short.
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johnno
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Hi Brentwood,
I totally agree,the sideways figure 8 has allways annoyed me too,
BUT,nowhere near as much as the Diabetic,lost in the wilds,for some time "Who needs a "Shot",of Insulin",
NOT LIKELY.
About time the Media,got their facts Right.
Regards.
John
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Mr. Bill
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I always found it wryly amusing that in the movie Contact, a young Jodie Foster is out on the front porch with her father watching a meteor shower through a 3 inch f/12 telescope.
Carl must be rolling over that one..... 
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Refractor6
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Quote:
I always found it wryly amusing that in the movie Contact, a young Jodie Foster is out on the front porch with her father watching a meteor shower through a 3 inch f/12 telescope.
Carl must be rolling over that one.....
Yes Mr. Bill when I saw the movie for the first time that scene left me   .
Another Hollywood blunder  
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Mr. Bill
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Yes Mr. Bill when I saw the movie for the first time that scene left me .
Another Hollywood blunder
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Stan
Takahashi FS-102 NSV
Antares 152 f/8 prototype
Antares 152 f/6.5
Antares 127 f/6.45 prototype
Orion 9x63 mini giants
Pentax 20x60 PCF WP
At least they were looking through the right end (50-50 chance.)
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10x50 Fujinon FMT-SX binos
15x70 AP binos + Paragon p-mount
Oberwerk 100BT 45 degree + Hercules fork mount
120mm f/5 Orion achromat + Moonlite focuser
140mm f/5.7 Vixen NeoAchro Petzvel refractor
150mm f/6.5 Antares achromat
150mm f/8 homemade achromat....EE Barnard MW Sweeper
8 inch newt with f/5 Swayze mirror
10 inch f/4.7 Orion newt + Paracorr
15 inch f/5 Discovery split tube
35mm Pan, 26mm Nagler, 17mm Nagler, 13mm Ethos, 8mm Ethos
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Larry Geary
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During the Leonid storm of 2001, I had a 4" refractor set up, just in case there was a lull in the action. At one point when the meteors were falling like rain I decided to point the scope at a visible trail left by a bright Leonid. All I can say is, "Holy cow!"
Try it some time.
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AJTony
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As a movie buff, I always go crazy when I see the binocular figure 8. Note: the figure 8 is also used in British movies (I guess it's universal).
People from my generation were dazzled by the amazing movie, "2001 A Space Odyssey". I actually saw it on opening night in 1968 on a giant cinemascope screen; a real wow experience.
Now the bad part. Next time you see "2001" check out the stars. In every space scene, space walk, etc. they twinkle excessively!
AJ
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