[R-390] $5000.00 390A????

[chacuff]

10 or more years ago I picked up a Meade 8" Schmit with the computer drive 
etc...

Lots of fun but you must have dark skys to enjoy the thing.  I didn't.  Sold 
it twice.  Bought it back once.

It's gone now for good....at least until I possibly end up in Arizona or 
something...

You can spend lots of money...especially if you get in to color digital 
astro photography.

Makes the $5000 R390A pale....

Cecil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] $5000.00 390A????


> No question that Don has the patience of Jobe!
>
> There is no other way he would be able to ride herd over this crew.
>
> I got snagged into Amateur Astronomy about 1998 when COSTCO was selling
> the Meade ETX series.  I picked up and ETX-60.  That didn't last very
> long as it didn't allow me to see what I wanted to.  So within about a
> year, I went and procured The original Celestron Nexstar 8" SCT.
>
> It is a hobby very much like owning a boat.  It is a perpetual sinkhole
> that consumes $$$.
>
> We are never satisfied.  Always on the prowl for better Eyepieces.  So
> now I have this horde of Nagler Type 4 EPs.
>
> Bob - N0DGN
>
>
>
> On 3/15/2012 8:38 PM, barry williams wrote:
>> Don probably has the patience of Job! Glad you got to meet him. I
>> haven't been to Dayton yet, but my 67 EAC came from there. We tried the
>> 'on subject only' route a few years back and the list was on life
>> support. We lost a lot of members.
>>
>> That talk about telescopes way back almost got me into it a few years
>> back. A neighbor was selling off some things and his big, fat, huge
>> Meade was up for less than 50% cost. I wish I had jumped on that deal
>> when I had the chance. Yup, siege mortar is exactly what he had too.
>>
>> I know what you mean about wives. My wife accepted the full blown shop
>> in the den when we met and later married. I was married before and that
>> wife accepted my first R-390A in the bedroom and on top of my night
>> table for a few weeks. Ah, the bliss of newlyweds.
>>
>> By the way, who was the list member way back who always came up with
>> boat anchors when he went dumpster diving? He was always telling us
>> about finding all kinds of stuff. I can't remember his name now. I
>> almost hated him at times when he found something.
>>
>>
>> the other Barry
>>
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