On Apr 25, 9:46 pm, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
The stars up here are just amazing, so I've gone and sold off my
Celestron for a big 14 inch dob. A light bucket like this will be
fantastic for Thomas in a couple of years. He'll have the kind of
skies I always wanted when I was getting my first views through a
telescope, only he'll see what we could never see in the wake of city
light pollution!

I can't wait to show him Saturn for the 1st time!

RB
35s5
NY

They were amazing here last night. Just about race start time the
skies cleared up. crystal clear, you could count craters on the moon,
Orion was standing tall and even a few gulls stayed out late squacking
in delight.Looks like the same today...perfect.

Joe

"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
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The stars up here are just amazing, so I've gone and sold off my
Celestron for a big 14 inch dob. A light bucket like this will be
fantastic for Thomas in a couple of years. He'll have the kind of
skies I always wanted when I was getting my first views through a
telescope, only he'll see what we could never see in the wake of city
light pollution!

I can't wait to show him Saturn for the 1st time!

I stumbled upon an astronomy weekend seminar some years back, when a comet
was still visible. The participants had set up their telescopes all over an
open field with virtually no light pollution. Some had really large
Dobsonians, one a 24" monster that required the viewer to stand on a
platform atop a series of twenty or so steps. The view was amazing. I was
able to see the pressure rings off the front surface of the comet's nucleus,
all sorts of colors in a variety of nebulae, and many of the really distant
galaxies were visible as ellipsoidal. It took the gent about an hour to set
up the scope and the platform--a bit much, IMO. I'll stick with my 14"
Maksutov-Cassegrain. It's bulky, but fits in the back of a typical ute.

Who's Dob did you buy?

Max