Savio Fong
Vendor (Galaxy Scientific)
Reged: 10/05/09
Posts: 38
Loc: Hong Kong
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I drive this telescope to Sidewalk every month, and children love watching the Moon through a Ethos 17, but everytime I forgot preparing a sunglass, may be the next time I should stop it down to 3".... 
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My Blog - Star Fantasy
Fixed domes : Lake Egret Observatory, Star Academy
Mobile Equipment : APM 203 f7 APO refractor, Paramount ME, PWT Tripod
Eyepieces : only TMB Supermonocentrics and Televue Ethos
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Tamiji Homma
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 02/24/07
Posts: 1286
Loc: California, USA
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I drive this telescope to Sidewalk every month, and children love watching the Moon through a Ethos 17, but everytime I forgot preparing a sunglass, may be the next time I should stop it down to 3"....
Excellent! Savio,
This is a lot of work. I am glad to know you are sharing great view with public.
I know what you mean sunglasses. It hurts eyes without them 
Tammy
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pollux
artiste
Reged: 04/01/04
Posts: 7030
Loc: Vancouver Canada
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Savio you are such a brave soul 
I would never let any strangers touching my scopes and eyepieces.
Whenever I get involved in public observing parties I use my cheap scope and eyepieces. And I am glad I do it this way as there was an incident a girl slipped and she grabbed my scope as support. And guess what? The scope fell 
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Personal Web Site
Telescope Comics
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PlanetMan
sage
Reged: 12/20/05
Posts: 449
Loc: Upland, Ca.
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It's all about good crowd control. I usually put my scope on a blanket and only have one person on the blanket at a time. For kids, I use a small step stool with a handrail. As they step up to look through the scope I have them put their hands on the rail. As the whole point of public outreach is to get people interested in astronomy, I always use my best equipment. The reality is that scopes and eyepieces are pretty durable and outside of knocking a scope over, it's pretty hard to do permanent damage.
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12" Lightbridge, OWL Optics
TV-85
A-T Voyager
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Savio Fong
Vendor (Galaxy Scientific)
Reged: 10/05/09
Posts: 38
Loc: Hong Kong
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thanks Tammy 
yes, it's very nice experience to share with all strangers about the beauty of the universe. I agree there could be risk, but I trust the Paramount can withstand "reasonable attack" 
you know Hong Kong is so densely populated, we have the whole Colorado population pack into one small city, so I can easily have 300+ pairs of eyes look through my telescope in a 3hr Sidewalk function.
Under the friendly sharing atmosphere of Sidewalk, we don't see which telescope is better or which is not, the contribution of 3" spotting scope is same as a 8" APO. Though by human nature, people are often attracted to the longest telescope there, e.g, a 8.5" f12 achromat there always attract the longest line then mine 
Till now there are over thousand pairs of eyes look through my telescope in Sidewalk, it's so blessed that I have no unhappy experience, may be a finger print or two in my Ethos lens, so will keep on joining
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My Blog - Star Fantasy
Fixed domes : Lake Egret Observatory, Star Academy
Mobile Equipment : APM 203 f7 APO refractor, Paramount ME, PWT Tripod
Eyepieces : only TMB Supermonocentrics and Televue Ethos
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pollux
artiste
Reged: 04/01/04
Posts: 7030
Loc: Vancouver Canada
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Don't get me wrong. I enjoy opening the door for public to see the universe and I never feel tired to repeat the same explanation over and over and over
I am just paranoid with my equipment
Of course if one day I have my own observatory I will definitely host events for public
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Personal Web Site
Telescope Comics
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alfi1966
super member
Reged: 08/24/09
Posts: 152
Loc: norway
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hi folks
today i got the moonlite focusers for my meade 5000 80mm triplet, and my SW 80mm pro ds.
fantastic fit and finish from ron, and exellent service.
took a picture of my "moonlite brothers"
alfi
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skywatcher 200mm f/5 newt, 150mm f/8.3 refractor w/ moonlite upgrade, Skywatcher EVOSTAR ED80 Pro DS,Meade Series 5000 80mm Triplet, eq6 pro synscan, eq5, canon 450d unmodded, canon 1000d modded, TS duomount and LVI Smartguider.
Edited by alfi1966 (10/14/09 02:22 PM)
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Ziggy943
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/11/06
Posts: 1895
Loc: Utah
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Savio you are such a brave soul
I would never let any strangers touching my scopes and eyepieces.
Whenever I get involved in public observing parties I use my cheap scope and eyepieces. And I am glad I do it this way as there was an incident a girl slipped and she grabbed my scope as support. And guess what? The scope fell
Bring a bigger scope that can hold somebody up.
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May your skies always be clear,
Ziggy
www.slas.us
4" Mak
#1, 160mm F8 TEC (born 1-18-2007, 27 lbs, 45.5" long), on AP900
6" F17.5 (D&G lens) (first light 6-7-2008)
9" F/14.9 Alvan Clark (1915), on Byers 812
14.25 F/5.5 Newt in a roll off observatory
Others, that have come and gone
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Ziggy943
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/11/06
Posts: 1895
Loc: Utah
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It's all about good crowd control. I usually put my scope on a blanket and only have one person on the blanket at a time. For kids, I use a small step stool with a handrail. As they step up to look through the scope I have them put their hands on the rail. As the whole point of public outreach is to get people interested in astronomy, I always use my best equipment. The reality is that scopes and eyepieces are pretty durable and outside of knocking a scope over, it's pretty hard to do permanent damage.
My feelings exactly
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May your skies always be clear,
Ziggy
www.slas.us
4" Mak
#1, 160mm F8 TEC (born 1-18-2007, 27 lbs, 45.5" long), on AP900
6" F17.5 (D&G lens) (first light 6-7-2008)
9" F/14.9 Alvan Clark (1915), on Byers 812
14.25 F/5.5 Newt in a roll off observatory
Others, that have come and gone
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Ziggy943
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/11/06
Posts: 1895
Loc: Utah
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That scope is NOT pointing up???? 
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May your skies always be clear,
Ziggy
www.slas.us
4" Mak
#1, 160mm F8 TEC (born 1-18-2007, 27 lbs, 45.5" long), on AP900
6" F17.5 (D&G lens) (first light 6-7-2008)
9" F/14.9 Alvan Clark (1915), on Byers 812
14.25 F/5.5 Newt in a roll off observatory
Others, that have come and gone
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Zhengyi
member
Reged: 12/28/04
Posts: 69
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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my grab n go setup, just ~200Lbs, light enough for one person setup...
now I run the mount with a 48v Lithium battery and it can last for several nights
Wow. I'm impressed. You must have a huge car as well to transport all these equipment.
Keep up the good work with Sidewalk astronomy.
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TMB 115/805 LW / GP-DX
William Optics 80mm SD / Alt-Az 3
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Sky Captain
Metal Whisperer
Reged: 11/07/04
Posts: 7770
Loc: Issaquah, WA.
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today i got the moonlite focusers for my meade 5000 80mm triplet, and my SW 80mm pro ds.
fantastic fit and finish from ron, and exellent service.
Very nice Alfi!!! I love my Moonlite focuser as well, but three of them...outstanding and expensive.
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12" Lightbridge : SC 8" f4 : 12.5" f2.35 Astrograph : TAL RS 4" f10 : WO EZT : Atlas EQ6
35 & 22 Panoptic : 14 & 8.8 Meade UWA : 8 to 12 Speers Variable : Antares 1.6x Barlow
Kerry
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Savio Fong
Vendor (Galaxy Scientific)
Reged: 10/05/09
Posts: 38
Loc: Hong Kong
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because the weather was too bad that night, so we can only point the telescope across the habour and show people what can we see through it 
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My Blog - Star Fantasy
Fixed domes : Lake Egret Observatory, Star Academy
Mobile Equipment : APM 203 f7 APO refractor, Paramount ME, PWT Tripod
Eyepieces : only TMB Supermonocentrics and Televue Ethos
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Savio Fong
Vendor (Galaxy Scientific)
Reged: 10/05/09
Posts: 38
Loc: Hong Kong
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thanks Zhengyi
my car is just a standard wagon, you can see that I put the refractor, Paramount and tripod inside the car, and mount a 12" Dobsonian on the rack, then I can go with my wife there. The car is not big by any sense, but gas price is more then $6/gallon here
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My Blog - Star Fantasy
Fixed domes : Lake Egret Observatory, Star Academy
Mobile Equipment : APM 203 f7 APO refractor, Paramount ME, PWT Tripod
Eyepieces : only TMB Supermonocentrics and Televue Ethos
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ibase
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 03/20/08
Posts: 2217
Loc: Manila, Philippines 121*E 14*N
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Savio, could not help but admire your noble deed with regards to sidewalk astronomy. I might be able to do the same here (Manila, Philippines) with the humble scopes that I own. Thanks for posting.
Best,
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Hernando
Nexstar 8/CG-5 ASGT/EZT; WO Megrez 102ED SV; Antares 6" 1529; WO ZS66SD; Orion ST80
Naglers 5T6, 9T1, 12T2; Panoptic27; Hyperion Zoom&21mm; ES14; Meade 6.7 UWA 5K; Pentax XW7
Brandon 16;Ultima7.5/18;BO/TMB 2.5/3.2/4/6mm;UO HD 5;BGO 6;UO-V 9/12.5;WO 7.5-22.5mm;Axiom23LX
TV 2x,3x barlow&8/11/15/20/25/32plossl; Aspheric31;Siebert36-OB;Paragon40;Meade56Smoothie
C-f/6.3FR;OIII,23A,UHC,SkyGlow,U-block,8"S-flter;GLP/Telrad/MRF/9x50RACI; NexImge;Canon RebelXS
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Downward Bound
Adrenaline Junkie
Reged: 03/29/06
Posts: 2741
Loc: Seattle
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 Thanks Savio for your contribution to the astronomy outreach initiative. 
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Bill
'flector: R200SS, 22" f/3.6 (on order)
'fractors: PST, AT-66, TV-85, FS-102, NP-127, TMB-152
'bins: 15x63, 10x52, 22x85
410+028B, Sphinx, Telepod, EZ Touch, G-11
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stevew
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 03/03/06
Posts: 1356
Loc: Vancouver
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I would never let any strangers touching my scopes and eyepieces.
Whenever I get involved in public observing parties I use my cheap scope and eyepieces.
Pollux wouldn't let me set up my gear within 20 feet of him this past spring  
Steve
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So long, and thanks for all the fish....
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therocksal
sage
Reged: 12/02/08
Posts: 387
Loc: Everett, WA
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Saw this Celestron 6" f8 at my local astro shop and just had to pick it up...had one of these a year ago and really missed the size...the powdercoating was done very well and the scope looks great.
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Celestron C9.25 XLT
Astro Tech 6" Mak-Cass - Broken focuser
Unistar Deluxe with encoders/Argo Navis
Atlas EQ-G
Celestron 15x70s
Hyperion Zoom!
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Savio Fong
Vendor (Galaxy Scientific)
Reged: 10/05/09
Posts: 38
Loc: Hong Kong
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thanks guys for all of your nice compliments and encouragement
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My Blog - Star Fantasy
Fixed domes : Lake Egret Observatory, Star Academy
Mobile Equipment : APM 203 f7 APO refractor, Paramount ME, PWT Tripod
Eyepieces : only TMB Supermonocentrics and Televue Ethos
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johnnyha
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 11/12/06
Posts: 1539
Loc: Sherman Oaks, CA
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Here is my new-to-me Takahashi FS-152...
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Johnny
Spicewood, TX
Sherman Oaks, CA
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