Re: [APML] Four Schmidt Shooters

[KGKIRKLEY@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/30/03 5:11:34 PM, tan@cox.net writes:

>Kent,
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>
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> When I was enquiring about the 14" Schmidts, Andreas sent me a picture
>with both of them. They looked the same to me in the picture, two large
>orange tubes pointed vertically up. So I said, let me have one and that
>was it. Just think of two Meade 12" Schmidt Cass OTAs side by side of the
>same vintage. I would not be able to tell which was which.
>
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>
>Loke

Loke:
No problem.
As Andreas and I had been communicating about 8 inch Schmidt's at that time, 
he offered me Han Vehrenberg's original 14 inch Schmidt which I declined. Some 
time later, in another exchange, he told me it had been sold to Joseph Sylvan 
and another he had, had gone to Loke Tan.

It's entirely possible that Vehrenberg had two, because he had observatories 
in Germany and South Africa.

Kent Kirkley 
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