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[Chuck2]

From ‘The Grinch’… telescopes & binos!

 

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[clamchip]

The binocular helmet Max is wearing is a great idea!

I think maybe I should build something like that!
 

Robert

Edited by clamchip, 03 December 2024 - 05:16 PM.

[Terra Nova]

The binocular helmet Max is wearing is a great idea!

I think maybe I should build something like that!
 

Robert

https://www.buyzoomo... PLA [12121081]
 

[ericb760]

https://www.buyzoomo... PLA [12121081]
 

300X magnification! Take my money, please!

[Thomas Marshall]

300X magnification! Take my money, please!

I'm pretty sure 300% mag. means 3X mag. Like constellation binoculars.

[norvegicus]

Yeah 3X.

 

Must be Galileans.  Might be usable if you can adjust the eye relief so you can find focus.

[RichA]

2024 movie EL3VATION, once again does not hire an astronomer to tell them which way to point the telescope. This is a classic scene where they have the scope pointing down while looking at the sky.  We need to assign teams of astronomers to follow all movie production teams and tell them how to use the telescope. 

This is so typical, but it's just that the average person recognizes a skinny white refractor and that is it.  When i had a house with a backyard that bordered the street, I'd get all kinds of people asking what my C8 was.

Edited by RichA, 05 December 2024 - 12:27 AM.

[Kokatha man]

I'm pretty sure 300% mag. means 3X mag. Like constellation binoculars.

Says "240%" magnification in the link for me...my maths always made that 2.4x...

[AstroKerr]

2024 movie EL3VATION, once again does not hire an astronomer to tell them which way to point the telescope. This is a classic scene where they have the scope pointing down while looking at the sky.  We need to assign teams of astronomers to follow all movie production teams and tell them how to use the telescope. 

[Terra Nova]

I watched a historic double feature the other night, Zulu (1964) and it’s prequel Zulu Dawn (1979) about the Anglo-Zulu War in the (southern hemisphere) summer of 1879 in the Natal Province of South Africa. Zulu details the siege of a mission station at Rorke’s Drift on 22 January, 1879, and Zulu Dawn tells the tale of the Battle of Isandlwana on the preceding day. Both are great historic epics but my favorite is the first, Zulu.

 

Anyway, about halfway through the Zulu Dawn, several members of a scouting party of the 24th Foot, a Welch expeditionary brigade are set up on a hill overlooking the plain of Isandlwana with a rather interesting and authentic looking brass telescope. Just prior to that scene, the commanding officer of one of the companies that was setup in an upland area some distance away tells a junior officer to ‘take his telescope to the top of that hill so and see if he can get a good look at the engagement taking place and report back’ (sic).

 

As a rather interesting footnote, entirely overlooked in the Zulu Dawn film is that a solar eclipse took place on the day of and during the Battle of Isandlwana. From Wikipedia:

 

“An officer in advance of Chelmsford's force gave this eyewitness account of the final stage of the battle at about 3:00 pm:

 

“In a few seconds we distinctly saw the guns fired again, one after the other, sharp. This was done several times – a pause, and then a flash – flash! The sun was shining on the camp at the time, and then the camp looked dark, just as if a shadow was passing over it. The guns did not fire after that, and in a few minutes all the tents had disappeared.”

“Nearly the same moment is described in a Zulu warrior's account:

 

“The sun turned black in the middle of the battle; we could still see it over us, or should have thought we had been fighting till evening. Then we got into the camp, and there was a great deal of smoke and firing. Afterwards the sun came out bright again.”

 

The local time of the solar eclipse on that day is calculated as 2:30 pm.”- Wikipedia, The Battle of Isandlwana.

 

In case you were wondering, Isandlwana opened the war, and was a disasterous defeat for the British who ultimately won the war the following July.
 

Edited by Terra Nova, 13 December 2024 - 08:57 AM.

[Chuck2]

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - 2024

 

Hollywood’s version of a derelict Alvin Clark refractor!

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[Terra Nova]

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - 2024

 

Hollywood’s version of a derelict Alvin Clark refractor!

I saw that movie at the theater when it came out. Good movie!

[highfnum]

a very dark view of a telescope future

[Chuck2]

Head & Shoulders Shampoo TV commercial with NFL’s Patrick Mahomes and "Tiny" Troy Polamalu searching for dandruff with 20x80mm binoculars…

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Edited by Chuck2, 29 December 2024 - 06:16 PM.

[Steve C.]

A couple of brass telescopes from an episode of Endeavour, one of my favorite shows.  Note: I am not recommending the sentiment expressed in the caption.

 

[Chuck2]

From “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”

 

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[Bob Campbell]

Furiosa--A Mad Max Saga (highly recommended, pure chaotic fun! esp if you like weird gadgets)

 

 

Classic orange tube C8! BTW he is sighting the incoming horde who is going to raid his GasTown where they make guzzoline, a very precious commodity.

 

Bob

[Kasmos]

Furiosa--A Mad Max Saga (highly recommended, pure chaotic fun! esp if you like weird gadgets)

 

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Classic orange tube C8! BTW he is sighting the incoming horde who is going to raid his GasTown where they make guzzoline, a very precious commodity.

 

Bob

Not a C8. It's been posted before and it's a Dynamax that's been painted and aged

 

https://www.cloudyni...ies/?p=13684108

[Bob Campbell]

Not a C8. It's been posted before and it's a Dynamax that's been painted and aged

 

https://www.cloudyni...ies/?p=13684108

It would take the detail oriented folks at CN to reveal its true nature. Cool! They probably got it at a scrap price. Wonder why they had the forethought to paint it orange to hide it from its true lineage?

 

Bob

[ccwemyss]

It would take the detail oriented folks at CN to reveal its true nature. Cool! They probably got it at a scrap price. Wonder why they had the forethought to paint it orange to hide it from its true lineage?

 

Bob

You never know what goes on between the director and the production designer. They may have decided that the gray didn't stand out enough against the background, and there may have been a color design palette assigned to GasTown that they chose from for the repaint. Or maybe one of them had used a Celestron in another project and liked the look.

 

Chip W. 

[Bob Campbell]

You never know what goes on between the director and the production designer. They may have decided that the gray didn't stand out enough against the background, and there may have been a color design palette assigned to GasTown that they chose from for the repaint. Or maybe one of them had used a Celestron in another project and liked the look.

 

Chip W. 

both plausible reasons. the color palette of that movie was orange rust and decay, and maybe someone even owned a c8 back in the day. the director George Miller is 79 after all, he may have owned one.

 

Bob

[highfnum]

Daniel Boone

[Terra Nova]

This is from the 1956 Columbia film Rumble on the Docks, a cheap remake of the classic Brando film On the Waterfront from two years earlier. Rumble was a B pic made to appeal to teenagers and it stared James Darren (character name Jimmy) in one of his earliest roles; he later found teen heart-throb fame as Moon-Doggie in Gidget. It's a pretty bad movie, but it is slightly redeemed by having a telescope very loosely woven into the plot-line. (The telescope appears to be authentic, a Japanese 60mm of approximately 700 mm f.l.)

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Edited by Terra Nova, 01 February 2025 - 09:32 PM.

[Chuck2]

The Gorge, 2025

 

Apologize, seems I’m finding more binos than scopes!

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Edited by Chuck2, 15 February 2025 - 06:15 PM.

[Dralf]

I remember few scenes of the 1968 TV show „The Ghost &Mrs Muir“ when Edward Mulhare as Cpt Gregg looks through a classic refractor watching out the window of the attic.