Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:27:42 -0600
Subject: But sad.
From: "John Huntsberger"
To: "Fred Kiesche"
Fred,
I went to my garage this morning at 11:15 a.m. and found that my Pelican Cases of eyepieces and photo equipment, along with my Denkmeier Binoviewer were stolen. The main door was closed but the side door was closed and unlocked.
I have no list of what was taken other than what I can remember.
I heard two voices about 4:30 a.m. and thought it was my renter and friend, who is a good friend, coming in. It was not. I suppose that's when the theft took place.
Eyepieces: Brandon 48mm, Pentax 40mm, TeleVue 31mm Type 5, Pentax 21mm, Pentax 14mm, Leica adapter and 32mm ocular, TeleVue 2" Barlow, Celestron 1.25" Barlow, Celestron 12.5mm Astrometric, Celestron 40mm, Celestron 35mm and at least two of my Moon filters.
In another Pelican case was a Leica R6 35mm camera body, Questar 1.25" adapter, Questar camera mount, Leica finder adapters, Questar counterweights, Questar direction booklet, and a Questar full-aperture Baader solar filter.
In another Pelican case was the Denkmeier Binocular Viewer with a pair of Celestron 30mm eyepieces, a pair of Celestron Axion 19mm eyepieces, and a pair of Edmund Optical 15mm eyepieces and the StarSweeper.
My three telescopes are still intact along with my 20 x 80 binoculars and Leica Trinovid spotting 'scope.
Fortunately for me, they left the Celestron $99.00 aluminum case with my complete set of Brandon 1.25" eyepieces and the Celestron sale eyepieces there.
There may well have been more, but I can't remember now.
The 'barn door' is now locked, but the horses are gone.
I have called the police, but there is probably no hope of recovering
any of it. Thanks for reading this. John
