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peter scherff
sage

Reged: 07/11/06

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: Preston Smith]
#4882546 - 10/26/11 11:44 PM

Hi Preston,

Let me now if you need any fast scopes. TeleVue MPT, Coulter CT-100 or satellite scopes. I will be at NEAF, so it will be easy for me to bring something.

Thanks,

Peter

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tim53
Postmaster

Reged: 12/17/04

Loc: Highland Park, CA

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: peter scherff]
#4882591 - 10/27/11 12:21 AM

Hi Preston:

If you're going to have scopes back into the 1800s, you probably want an "Antique" class.

Antiques probably have a somewhat different, though overlapping, "urgency" with regard to preservation and educating today's amateurs as to their still wonderful utility in this day and age.

Weight driven drives, setting circles... how many people today even realize that it's possible to do a Messier marathon with setting circles? How many remember doing that? How many digital imagers realize how possible it is to do digital imaging with an antique or classic scope?

e.g., I once put my Sbig ST2000XM with AO-7 on a stock 1980 orange tube C-8 and got perfectly round stars during 8 minute exposures without a drive corrector and with sloppy polar alignment, just to prove to myself that it could be done!

And I've done planetary imaging with my Cave 8" f/7 lightweight deluxe, similarly "imprecisely" polar aligned, and with no drive corrector. It was a pain to center, but it worked!

Wish I could go!

-Tim.

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Preston Smith
The Travel Scope Guy

Reged: 04/24/05

Loc: Eureka, Pa

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: peter scherff]
#4883050 - 10/27/11 10:01 AM

Quote:

Hi Preston,

Let me now if you need any fast scopes. TeleVue MPT, Coulter CT-100 or satellite scopes. I will be at NEAF, so it will be easy for me to bring something.

Thanks,

Peter

Hi Peter!

Wonderful! I was going to contact you about the possibility of setting up the Satellite Telescopes in a display. The MPT and the Coulter would be excellent scopes to have at the show.

Many thanks!

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Preston Smith
The Travel Scope Guy

Reged: 04/24/05

Loc: Eureka, Pa

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: tim53]
#4883056 - 10/27/11 10:05 AM

Thanks for the input (as always) Tim!

I'll definitely consider the antique terminology.

Wish you could be there!

Never say never.....

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bob midiri
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 06/17/04

Loc: pa 19320

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: Preston Smith]
#4883084 - 10/27/11 10:24 AM

If I am off from work Ill be there with my C14 orange classic!!

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Preston Smith
The Travel Scope Guy

Reged: 04/24/05

Loc: Eureka, Pa

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: bob midiri]
#4884814 - 10/28/11 08:01 AM

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If I am off from work Ill be there with my C14 orange classic!!

Outstanding! Thanks Bob!

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Napersky
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 01/27/10

Loc: Chicagoland

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: Preston Smith]
#5065933 - 02/10/12 05:58 PM

I can bring my Sears 90mm if I know that there will be an exhibit.

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sgorton99
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 04/30/08

Loc: Wisconsin, Madison

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: Napersky]
#5065980 - 02/10/12 06:26 PM

Hey Preston, swing by WI and you can pick up my '59 Cave

.
Steve

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Awesomelenny
Post Laureate

Reged: 05/02/04

Loc: Long: 81.42 W Lat: 41.21 N

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: sgorton99]
#5073311 - 02/15/12 08:29 AM

Awww come on Steve~! Take some quality time off and come to NEAF!! I mean, this IS the first Classics Display EVER there at NEAF! This would be so neat to have Tom Trusock interview us there to see what us guys are all about.

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Napersky
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 01/27/10

Loc: Chicagoland

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[Re: Awesomelenny]
#5073333 - 02/15/12 08:46 AM

Preston,

I have a Power Point presentation I have given on collecting the classics and can bring the Sears 6345 90mm.

Mark

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clintwhitman
Caveman

Reged: 01/01/07

Loc: CALI SoEasyACavemanCanSlewIt

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: Napersky]
#5073361 - 02/15/12 09:03 AM

I think you guys are underestimating the drawing power of even a small tasco has. I took my 155 Unitron to Pinos and a small crowd was gathered around it.
(If you take it, they will come!)
The scopes your talking about will get a bunch of attention, You guys will start a collecting craze and craigslist will be picked clean.

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PiSigma
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 10/14/09

Loc: North Carolina

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[Re: Preston Smith]
#5073428 - 02/15/12 09:44 AM

Preston,

Sent you a PM.

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apfever
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 05/13/08

Loc: Colorado

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[Re: PiSigma]
#5073485 - 02/15/12 10:30 AM Attachment (25 downloads)

How much room will there be? It might be necessary to plan specific scopes ahead of time since we all have a lot of interesting offers. I could see limited space used up.

Also, if anybody is traveling by Denver, and I can't make it, I'd consider volunteering something totally different from production scopes, early 1900's.

Neil

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Preston Smith
The Travel Scope Guy

Reged: 04/24/05

Loc: Eureka, Pa

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: apfever]
#5073536 - 02/15/12 11:09 AM

Hi Folks!

I've been busy at the base but will give an update and respond to PMs by Friday.

We already have a very exciting line-up and will have some room for a couple more scopes but the space is filling up!

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Chassetter
sage

Reged: 07/08/09

Loc: New Brunswick, Canada

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: apfever]
#5073578 - 02/15/12 11:34 AM

That steampunk scope is boss!!

Is there a thread where we can get some more information on it?

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apfever
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 05/13/08

Loc: Colorado

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: Chassetter]
#5073603 - 02/15/12 11:55 AM

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That steampunk scope is boss!! Is there a thread where we can get some more information on it?

pm sent

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clintwhitman
Caveman

Reged: 01/01/07

Loc: CALI SoEasyACavemanCanSlewIt

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: apfever]
#5074060 - 02/15/12 04:23 PM

TIMS GREAT REFRACTOR

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Napersky
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 01/27/10

Loc: Chicagoland

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: clintwhitman]
#5074106 - 02/15/12 05:00 PM

Forget the telescope I like what is standing next to it!

Seriously that is an unbelievable machine. Sort of a way back time machine to the Victorian Era, pre-Zeiss, of Clark
and others! Wow.

Dick Parker is working on something similiar see link:

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/atm/Number/3484751/page/7/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/o/fpart/all

I sure could use that sort of shop talent for my 1920s Zeiss 110mm.

Mark

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wz2
Most Boring Astronomer...

Reged: 07/30/10

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: Napersky]
#5074291 - 02/15/12 06:47 PM

Can someone bring one of these?
Big SCT

Chris

Edited by BRisley (02/16/12 10:48 PM)

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sgorton99
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 04/30/08

Loc: Wisconsin, Madison

Re: Classic Telescope Display at NEAF 2012? new

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[Re: wz2]
#5074295 - 02/15/12 06:51 PM

The scope or the dude?

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