[rollei_list] Re: OT: Digital Imaging and 'Stacking', Astro Imagery
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:15:58 -0400
At 01:02 PM 3/29/2012, Laurence Cuffe wrote:
Your Questar is one of my dream machines, while
bigger machines may see more and fainter, a
telescope that size is a get up and go machine which is always ready.
Back in the Longago, in the early 1960's, when I
was but a nipper, I lusted after a Swift 731 3"
refractor and a Questar. I now own them
both. They sit at the far end of the spare bay
in our garage so that they are always
'acclimatized', which means that they bear the
ambient temperature. So, whenever I want to
observe, it is a matter of seconds to pull either
or both out and to start gazing at the skies. I
am a gear-head, so I own a load of lenses and
accessories for them. (Yes, I can adapt my DSLR
to either of them, and I have such jewels as the
Back monocentric oculars and that magnificent
12.5mm Zeiss Jena eyepiece, which allows me an
honest, distortion-free, one degree field.)
The Questar is a trouper. I bought it in
1992: it came from the old Frankfort Arsenal in
Philadelphia, via that grand guru of matters
Zeiss, Charlie Barringer, who had bought a newer
version. In 1995, I was camping, and, in the
course of observing with my son, managed to drop
it onto asphalt. 'Fine', said the Questar, and
went on being, well, a Questar. This is a
telescope as tough as they come. I also own that
ultimate spotting scope, the nitrogen-filled
Leica APO-Televid 77, and I am not certain that
the Questar is not a tougher bird for the all of it.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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