I've been tempted to have my parents bring up my old Celestron the next time they come to visit. But there's the whole problem of the skies up here being nearly as bright at night as they are during the day. :(
C-90 Astro, from about 1983. It's a 90mm f/11 (if memory serves) Maksutov cassegrain, .965" back, coated lens, and a gear drive equitoral mount. Not a great telescope, but good enough for a junior high school kid, and it doubled as a great telephoto lens for wildlife photography. It even got me some decent photos of the May 1984 annular eclipse -- I actually was able to get my principal and teachers to agree to reschedule a day of my 9th grade final exams so that I could travel with the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society (I believe I was the only under-18 member at the time) to a state park within the path of annularity. That was one of the highlights of high school for me.
But if I ever decide to get into it again, I'd probably get one of the newer Celestrons or Meades -- being able to auto-align is probably worth a significant amount of money for me. :)
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Date: 2006-02-25 01:48 am (UTC)I've been tempted to have my parents bring up my old Celestron the next time they come to visit. But there's the whole problem of the skies up here being nearly as bright at night as they are during the day. :(
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Date: 2006-02-25 04:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-25 04:38 am (UTC)But if I ever decide to get into it again, I'd probably get one of the newer Celestrons or Meades -- being able to auto-align is probably worth a significant amount of money for me. :)