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Oh boy, oh boy
CJ astro club is getting a 4-inch refractor tomorrow. WOOTS
Mr tan said that the computerized GPS C8 schimdtt cassegrain is a complete waste of money, the telescope CPU broke down (oh no) and had fungus growing all over the lens. he could had bought 3 manual scopes and done a better job with it
well, while chatting with mr tan at his office, we came up with crazy ideas, like buying 10 plus beginner scopes and do a telescope dance(pratically means, when someone shouts "alderbaran", all telescopes will point at that star, u know what i mean). even better, we could buy 3 decent scopes and do a messier marathon in Singapore, yes, SINGAPORE! eh, how tough could it be?
it would seem silly to install a 16 inch(40cm) scope in my house and enclosed by an observatory. price? 2 mill sing dollars. with all those filters to reduce city lights. well, mr albert lim sounded kinda silly with a decent 40cm scope in a very light polluted singapore
Anyways, there are 3 types of telescopes. the refractor, the reflector and the compound telescope. the refractor uses lens to bend light, the reflector uses angled mirrors and the compound telescope uses both. in my opinion, the long tube reflector is the best bang for buck scope. with decent optics, the pleiades to the orion nebula will be a piece of cake for this! also, take note that singapore is too bright, we usually travel overseas to stargaze, so our telescopes must be portable. forget about C8s or scopes any larger.
Semakau here i come!
Zong Yang
stargazing again at[4/02/2009 06:12:00 PM]
