Local store had a sale on a Meade Altazamath Retractor telescope, with computer control.

I am still trying to visualize this instrument.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

Remember, you prefer aperture!

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Hard time visualizing it? Heck, this time of year my telescope retracts every time I go out to view the night sky. I'm not fond of Midwestern winters.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

Oh, one of these would be nice...

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Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint.

Would like my sister to spend Christmas with spouse and I. But she can't {sad sigh}

That is sad. I feel for you.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

A heated observatory with hydraulic dome....

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about: Jayutah


I are Learnding.

Whatever you get, just don't open it early!

[Bugs Bunny voice] What a maroon! [/Bugs Bunny voice]

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T. Anderson

From my mother, I got exactly what I was expecting, mostly. I got T Is for Trespass--but it's a signed copy, which means Sue Grafton did a book signing in Pasadena some time in the last two weeks. I also got a toy rocket set from some friends, complete with tiny Apollo capsule, shuttle, Mars Rover, and Soyuz.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

That pesky wabbit has never been froze to MAC at 3am....

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about: Jayutah


I are Learnding.

Sweet! I ask my mother for stuff like that, but she says I'm too old.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

You are never too old for TOYS

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about: Jayutah


I are Learnding.

She says I am.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

That is why you don't CALL them 'toys'...

Educational tools...

Historical models...

and a Newtonian Physics Demonstration Device... (rocket).

Here's what I tried:
"Mum, can I buy this model space shuttle?"
"You're too old to play with toys, Kai."
"It's not a toy, it's a model."
"That's not a model."
"Well, yeah, if it was a real fancy one, I couldn't separate the boosters and the external tank and stuff."
"You can't buy it and that's final."

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Yeah, but at least he knows you can't see anything with hot air pouring out the open slit!

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Any day you wake up on "the right side of the dirt" is a good day.

T. Anderson

Hmmm....Christmas is over .... and I didn't get what I wanted ....<sigh>


Anyway ...better luck next time!

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Jean
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einsteiin