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#26 deSitter

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Posted 02 November 2024 - 11:26 AM

Biographical tidbits about Sam Brown: https://circuitousro...rown/index.html

 

He lived in Marion, Ohio and was, as the link above states, "reclusive." And quite a curmudgeon too! The late Clifford Spohn, a Marion attorney, amateur astronomer, and ATM, once told me an amusing story about Sam. He was a veritable hermit who spent his waking hours dressed only in a bathrobe, usually with a pipe clenched in his teeth. Once a local lad who had faithfully executed one of Brown's telescope designs in an Edmund Scientific publication appeared on the doorstep of Brown's modest bungalow hoping to proudly display his handiwork and express his gratitude. Brown appeared, but no sooner had the hapless lad uttered the words "Hello Mister Brown, my name is..." promptly closed the door without uttering a word.

I never knew a thing about him before this. I tried to figure out what part of the country he was in by the photos in his section on the principles of photography (a useful thing all by itself). I settled on the Cleveland area, based on my experiece with friends in Cleveland Heights. So that was pretty close!

 

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Posted 02 November 2024 - 02:00 PM

All the old Edmund pamphlets/books used to all be available online in pdf for download on the old Anchor Optics site which was the last vestiges of the old Edmund Scientific free of the glitz and high prices of the new Edmund Optics. I remember posting them on this site years ago (8 or 10?). I downloaded lots of stuff from it back then.


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Posted 06 November 2024 - 09:58 PM

Does anyone know if there are plans to make "Time in Astronomy" available on the site? One of my favorites!



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Posted 06 November 2024 - 10:07 PM

LINK Here to the beginning of this Edmund offer.



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Posted Yesterday, 10:30 PM

My dearest friend and coauthor, the late, great Donald C. Parker, planetary observer and imager extraordinaire, during a 2014 visit. Don is clutching a copy of Sam Brown's classic tome Mounting Your Telescope. With characteristic wit he had suggested that it be subtitled "And Other Unnatural Acts"

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#31 highfnum

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Posted Today, 03:35 AM

all very nice

 

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Posted Today, 03:48 AM

post no 30 very funny


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#33 highfnum

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Posted Today, 07:35 PM

almost forgot this guy

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