[ATM] Sidewalk or Grass walk rookie observer's

["Russell Jocoy" <russjocoy@hotmail.com>]

To all on the list,

     We have all been through the "rookie" questions, and some of the 
responses are very funny.
Sometimes the responses of the Telescope owner's are too deep for the 
"sidewalk guy"
    I find that explaining that the size of the telescope has nothing to do 
with "power or magnification", just with how much more definition or 
contrast you can see..  I give them the
television explanation..... A small telescope is like a black and white TV 
on an antenna.   A meduim size telescope is like a color TV with cable. A 
large telescope is like a color TV with high definition.
  And the Big Telescopes up on the mountains, well they are the eagle 
eye's... And finally the Hubble Photos you see in magazines are from outer 
space, and though they look fantastic, you will never see them through this 
little eyepiece, everything is "black and white" on earth... Of course there 
are those giant light bucket DOB's that we all want, that give you a little 
green swirl or tint of red... Get up on that ladder and look to the side of 
the eyepiece, can you see it..  I think so..,come on, you can't see it.....  
  To explain to someone that is passing through, and expecting magazine 
color and definition, they will most likely be let down by "your" telescope 
image. .. But the ones who understand the instrument and the precision it 
takes to Make, guide, and pinpoint an object for observation, are forever 
hooked, even if the Andromeda galaxy looks like a fuzzy white egg..
                                    
Russ........................................................

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