

Attention Grabber
#1
Posted 04 April 2012 - 09:05 PM

#2
Posted 04 April 2012 - 10:21 PM
#3
Posted 05 April 2012 - 06:30 AM

#4
Posted 05 April 2012 - 08:09 AM



#5
Posted 05 April 2012 - 05:14 PM
When we set up a big dob, people say, oh theres some people setting a cannon up

#6
Posted 05 April 2012 - 07:13 PM

A large, newish unmarked van with a satellite dish on the roof would round out the proceedings nicely.

#7
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:46 PM
When a few guys go set up there little scopes across the street, people say, oh theres a few geeks looking at the moon.
When we set up a big dob, people say, oh theres some people setting a cannon up
My neighbor Wanda (a lady in her early 80’s) says: "Call me when you are going to set a scope up. On second thought, only call me when you have that big one that looks like a giant trash can set up (a new description of an Obsession 20)! It works much better than the small ones, and I don't mind having to climb the ladder.”
#8
Posted 06 April 2012 - 07:33 AM
#9
Posted 06 April 2012 - 10:08 AM
At 80-plus, I wonder if Wanda is actually seeing anything in those smaller instruments! Possible cataracts/glaucoma/macular degeneration + 20" Obsession = views equivalent to a 60mm refractor?
She can see good enough to hit the squirrels in her bird feeders with her pellet gun from about 20 or 30 yards away. She says that if they don’t learn their lesson, she’s getting out the 22. She looks and acts more like 60 than 80, and has no problem walking the 100 yards up hill to my lawn, and then climbing up the ladder to the 20’s eyepiece a number of times. I hope I’m half as healthy at 80…. assuming I actually last that long. :o
#10
Posted 06 April 2012 - 07:30 PM
