Fun thread, Wags.
Top dogs -
Mirrors - Discovery Telescopes. Specifically their old 11" Dobs
mirror. Amazing views, crisp, contrasty. Other Discovery scopes I've
looked thru show the same fine mirrors.
Other ... Eyepieces. I don't own a Nagler, Marek. My paper-towel
rolls keep me very content. 22 Panoptic, 16 UM Koenig, 10mm and 6m
Radians. Anyway who knocks Radians hasn't used them. They rock. It
was Rashad got me to look at University Optics for that Koenig, after
seeing the contrast in his. For me, that's the top criterion for an
EP, contrast. Honestly never understood why all the excitement over
superwide views - a half degree field is full of stars.
Barlow - Televue 2x, endlessly useful, crisp.
Red light - had to go look, mine's a Rigel. Sander, you made the
right choice getting the red-only. The white LED's are vicious with
the glare.
Charts - what'd you think I'd say. Edmund's Mag 6, priceless. And the
combined work of that Dutch astrogod Wil Tirion. SkyAtlas,
Uranometria. Bright Star Atlas is handy.
Books - Burnham's! No way to try and live without it.
Karkoschka's Observer's Sky Atlas, lovely design. Albert turned me
onto it in the first place, and Kingsley keeps it in his jacket. Now
those are endorsements.
other other ... software. Jeff Blanchard's FileMaker hack for
observing logs, slick format, gets data off Gottlieb's NGC+.
No bad dogs in my kennel.
DDK
-- Jamie Dillon <mavericks@No-Spam> <*> TAC, astro anarchy at work http://observers.org) "We now know that nobody lives on Mars, at least not year round." Dave BarryReceived on Fri Oct 28 17:56:28 2005