desertrefugee
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 08/06/07
Posts: 1221
Loc: Arizona
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Notice how Scott absolutely shut this thread down... 
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"Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost." - Milton
-Darrell
Reflectors - 76 to 305mm (f4.7 to f9.2)
Refractors - 50 to 120mm (f5 to f16.7)
Binoculars - 6x15 to 22x100
N. Phoenix, AZ
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2836
Loc: 3rd Rock
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I would never be allowed to keep those pesky telescopes in the livingroom.
Yeah thats because that is where his wife keeps her scopes. No space left so he keeps his in the Den.
Lucky guy, i wish i had that problem. 
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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magic612
professor emeritus
Reged: 09/30/08
Posts: 561
Loc: Somewhere south of Chicago, IL
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I would never be allowed to keep those pesky telescopes in the livingroom. I don't know how you guys get away with it. 
  
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- Celestron C8+, Orion 90mm f/10, Orion ST-80, 5" f/8 Dob, 127mm f/9.4 refractor, 114mm f/8 on DS GoTo, 60mm Sears 6333-A, 127mm f4.4 refractor lens (current project), 12" f/5 mirror (future project)
- Orion Vista 10x50s (5 deg), Sears #6207 7x35 (7 deg), Jason #138 Statesman 7x35 (11.5 deg)
Yes, I'm addicted to telescopes and binoculars. I am getting help. Every time I look at the heavens, it helps.
http://www.eyesonthesky.com
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Dber
member
Reged: 09/14/07
Posts: 11
Loc: Long Beach, CA
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Hi Chuck,
Move out here to California. I know a really good fellow astronomer/real estate guy.
Dave
David Berman, Broker
All Coast Brokers, Inc.
2124 Main St., Ste. 100
Huntington Beach, CA 90815
714 814 8019 direct
DRE License #00297815 Since 1973
davemberman@yahoo.com or
dberman@allcoastbrokers.com
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deSitter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/09/04
Posts: 2928
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My scope collection has uncovered an unintended consequence, my wife has a reason to shop for a new and bigger house  Her justification is now the fact that I have to display my scopes in shifts, LOL!!!
That is just GREAT!! Notice how the lordly Unitron gathers the flock around! Is that a GOTO altaz mount on the left?
-drl
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deSitter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/09/04
Posts: 2928
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I would never be allowed to keep those pesky telescopes in the livingroom. I don't know how you guys get away with it.
WHAT IS THAT?? Is that a Meade?? some sort of "Ahab Grade Reflector"?
This girl seems destined to be around telescopes.
-drl
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Chuck Faranda
super member
Reged: 03/31/07
Posts: 146
Loc: Florida
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Hi Chuck,
Move out here to California. I know a really good fellow astronomer/real estate guy.
Dave
David Berman, Broker
All Coast Brokers, Inc.
2124 Main St., Ste. 100
Huntington Beach, CA 90815
714 814 8019 direct
DRE License #00297815 Since 1973
davemberman@yahoo.com or
dberman@allcoastbrokers.com
Yeah, but I'd have to give up my gun collection 
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Regards,
Chuck Faranda
See my vintage scopes at http://ccdastro.com/vintage.html
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woodsman
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 03/12/08
Posts: 1079
Loc: Colorado Springs, CO
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I would never be allowed to keep those pesky telescopes in the livingroom. I don't know how you guys get away with it.
Ok, now does the little girl go inside the cannon and then you fire it off?
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artisticwoods
C-14 Orange Tube, C-8, C-5, C-90 Astro Model, C8 Schmidt Camera 8" f1.5, C5.5 Schmidt Camera f1.65, SPI 42mm f/19 Refractor, Sears 90mm f/15.56 Ref, Sears 80mm f/15 Ref, Swift 77mm f/13 Model 831, Scope 60mm f/11.7, Sears 50mm f/12
Unitron Model 140 75mm/1200mm, Unitron model 128 60mm/900mm
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Scott Horstman
Vendor- Backyard Observatories
Reged: 03/11/04
Posts: 8074
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I would NEVER abuse a telescope in such a fashion.
Chuck, stay where your at and keep the shooters. Telescopes and guns are the best. 
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Doug76
Postmaster
Reged: 12/05/07
Posts: 5574
Loc: SE Louisiana, future Texan
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Absolutely right Scott!
Chuck, stay put!
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Doug
Truckstop Astronomer
The Universe, the light of God, in all it's majesty
6 achro refractors, 50mm-150mm
1 apo refractor, 90mm
1 SCT, 8 inch
UO Abbe Volcano Tops
Faworski Ortho's
Panoptic 24mm
Carton 100mm f/13 under construction
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Scott Horstman
Vendor- Backyard Observatories
Reged: 03/11/04
Posts: 8074
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Yeah thats because that is where his wife keeps her scopes.
I make her keep HERS' in the garage! 
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grendel
sage
Reged: 04/12/09
Posts: 251
Loc: Canterbury, Kent, UK
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If I put one scope up in the living room, then we wouldnt be able to move round the room at all, we have a typical English terraced house Living room, scarcely 12 foot in any direction - well maybe 15 foot tops.
But I do have the parts of several mounts scattered around my chair, plus the optics for a few projects, and as of tonight a first surface mirror and lens from an overhead projector I found thrown out today, I'm planning to try and grab the fresnell lens from it friday.
grendel
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Preston Smith
Military Observer
Reged: 04/24/05
Posts: 3449
Loc: Eureka, Pa
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Great thread!
I have 27 refractors..... they will not fit in my Living Room. Perhaps the three bedrooms.... 
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Preston
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Isaiah 40:26
SV115T,NHII,SV70,SV50 and Tele Vue Ranger
Vintage Refractors: Asahi-Pentax, Edmund Scientific, Tasco, Unitron
60mm Telescope Club
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BarabinoSr
sage
Reged: 11/17/05
Posts: 330
Loc: Slidell La
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Cheez!I need to add a new room!!The Collection is taking up more than half the garage,plus the area around my patio doors. G
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12"GSO f/5.3" Newtonian Reflector 10" Meade LX-50 Fork Mounted Schmidt-Cassegrain
8" Hardin f/6 Newtonian reflector
6" Konus f/8 Refractor,Yulin 5"f/9 refractor,
4.5"TASCO Luminova f/9 Newtonian Reflector 4.5"TASCO 11TR(Lunagrosso) Red reflector
90mm Meade f/11 refractor,Tasco 10TE 76mm 1200mm f/l Refractor
60mm TASCO 7TE-5 1000mm f/16.7 Refractor 60mm TASCO 9TE 700mm f/l refractor
60mm TASCO 9TE-0 710mm f/l Refractor 50mm-TASCO 6TE-5 600mm f/l Refractor
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will w
sage
Reged: 08/13/06
Posts: 455
Loc: oxford,ms
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well chuck you can get 7 diffrent views if you set all 7 scopes up at once.. dont guess you can have to many scopes,just not enough places to putem.
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desertrefugee
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 08/06/07
Posts: 1221
Loc: Arizona
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I have 27 refractors
My count - not that I'm watching that closely - currently stands at 17.
I passed on this Circle T just this evening. Sounds quite unmolested according to the nice, but truly uninformed lady.
Penncrest 60/800 alt-az
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"Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost." - Milton
-Darrell
Reflectors - 76 to 305mm (f4.7 to f9.2)
Refractors - 50 to 120mm (f5 to f16.7)
Binoculars - 6x15 to 22x100
N. Phoenix, AZ
Edited by desertrefugee (10/14/09 08:58 PM)
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