Subject: Re: WTB: Telescope
Date: Jul 25 11:33:52 1995
From: Herb Curl - h.curl at hazmat.noaa.gov


I'm bringing my TSN-4 to the Teddy Birders Picnic (to get the free beer).
I've no problem with it but then I don't do heavy rain or dust storms. (It
does have one of those fitted jackets, though.) Re: weight; it ain't the
scope, it's the tripod that bugs me. (I know, you could, and can, hand
hold it but it's hard to show other people what you're looking at.) I used
the lightest Bogen for awhile: too heavy. Now I've got a Slik with
interchangeable fluid head adapter so that it's possible to interchange the
scope with a camera. Maybe we should have a tripod show and tell as well
as the scope-out. Re: magnification; I've thought about getting the zoom
but most of the time it's hard to use more than 25x because of the small
FOV and distortion, caused by heat waves. Also, most of the high powered
eyepieces have too low an eyepoint for glasses wearers. Does anyone really
get much use out of the 60x end?

Stuart, are you going to the Highland Games this weekend? We could enter
the scope toss as a tag team.

Herb Curl
Seattle


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