Comments on: What was your first?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:25:01 +0000

My first Telescope was a 60mm White K-Mart Refractor telescope, and I got a lot of use out of it. This was back about 1971. The first use, probably was the Moon, and random stars, but used it alot for zooming in on local objects. This telescope had a nice wooden tripod, and I even was able to extend the eyepiece out further using some cardboard to about 120 power. It had about a 10 to 60 power zoom. Over the years I had taken the whole telescope apart and cleaned up the lenses. I noticed the pair of object lenses paired only a certain way, for a crisper view, so it was interesting re-assembling the telescope. The finder scope was lacking but it worked sometimes, not easy to line up.

Was so much fun I had joined the Livonia Astronomy Club back in the 1970’s.

I have my Celestron C4.5 from 1988, that I bought in Hawaii.

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muck — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:31:26 +0000

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By: quasidog

quasidog — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:08:57 +0000

@Spoon? “That’s right Astronomy gets women.” ….. WTF ? I’m all confused now … ;p jks

By: Spoon?

Spoon? — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:40:08 +0000

Jupiter. Last Saturday @ Koolang observatory . Beautiful bright milky ball. The trip was a surprise for my girlfriend.
That’s right
Astronomy gets women.
FTW

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:29:25 +0000

My first was probably the moon, during what I suspect was the 1989 Lunar eclipse. My dad had a little telescope (4″, maybe?) and we had a great view from our back porch in Colorado.
The first Really Impressive Thing I saw through a telescope was Saturn, though, from a camp in the mountains in 1993 or so. Being up around 12,000 ft and away from all the lights of the city, we could see a lot of stars and Saturn’s rings were clearly visible through the 8″ or 10″ telescope they had set up for the campers.

By: Space Star Wars Episode 3 Planet Mars

Space Star Wars Episode 3 Planet Mars — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:54:14 +0000

Space Star Wars Episode 3 Planet Mars

I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me

By: beche-la-mer

beche-la-mer — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:35:31 +0000

Halley’s comet, 1986. My dad was actually running comet-watching tours, but I didn’t get home on university break until the comet was past its best. It didn’t inspire me to further astronomical adventures: in fact, I barely glanced at the night sky again until many years later when I became interested in cosmology and astronomy from a theoretical point of view, because my son was learning about the solar system in preschool.