The Coalition Of The Swilling
Description: Ramblings from a citizen interested in Science and Politics
About a month ago I got a new telescope and I’d like to share my experiences with it so far.
I got my first ‘real’ telescope (not the kind you get in department retail stores) about 13 years ago and it was a 10” Newtonian Reflector on a manual Dobsonian Mount. I chose that one because my favorite things to look at is deep sky stuff – Star Clusters and Nebulae in the Milky Way and other galaxies – so I needed a huge light bucket to resolve those low magnitude targets.
It served me well and the manual mount strengthened my understanding of the night sky as there was some difficult star hopping I had to learn to find those faint fuzzy deep sky objects and I now understand the celestial coordinate system well and can point out just about any constellation in the northern hemisphere on any given day.
The Coalition Of The Swilling