Re: [ATM] What we see and what we want to see

[GARY FUCHS <gary@rcn.com>]

Well said Russ.

Gary Fuchs

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:13:31 -0400
>From: "Russell Jocoy" <russjocoy@hotmail.com>  
>Subject: [ATM] What we see and what we want to see  
>To: atm@atmlist.net
>
>To all on the list,
>
>    Opinion's, Advise, and direction are very active on this list... this is 
>a good thing... The deeply educated and advanced person's on the ATM list 
>are very willing to lend help to all.
>       If I was a novice, never knowing anything about this new realm of 
>making my own telescope, I would be confused....why? Because I cannot 
>understand what is being discussed, I want to make a telescope to see the 
>cosmos... I understand the complex transfer of information, I also do not 
>understand some of the Mathmatical feed that turns into the light to the 
>eye.  If I was a rookie ATM, I would be overwhelmed with info that I didn't 
>understand.
>     Yes , I know this list is active and many person's are advanced in 
>their ATM experience, and some are really Professional's and don't even know 
>it..  I also know that whenever a rookie ask's a stupid question (there are 
>no stupid question's)  The "troop's" come to the rescue and answer in 
>harmony...  I really love this list, novice's and professer's can come here 
>and actually get answers from the crowd that has been there, and done that..
>  The new member's to this list must understand that the "school yard" is 
>filled with "Seniors" and some will talk about the best "mirrors or scopes" 
>but they will always give you the way to create your own... The love of 
>looking at the cosmo's and being able to create a tool to magnify your eye 
>to the heaven's is a never ending push to keep the skies alive to those who 
>only give it a passing glance..
>      Some are let down, because the eyepiece image does not look like the 
>printed Hubble photo, or the 5 hour exposure that shows details beyond the 
>human eye...This sadden's me , these fantastic photo's are not what any 
>eyepiece can show.  I have had many people look through a 13 inch DOB and 
>think it was really neat, but where is the color.. I myself have asked the 
>owner of a 48inch DOB if he could see color in the Orion Nebula.....the 
>answer was ..just a little green....
>        I guess I am going on too long on this listing, My main idea is that 
>most rookies have seen photo's from the Hubble telescope, new CCD exposures, 
>or even time exposures on film that create a colorful universe on paper, but 
>there is a letdown in the eyepiece... Maybe if we looked at the pictures 
>before the "view" we would feel the same.... Just my in-look    Russ Jocoy
>     PS   I am not putting down Exposure kings, and long stands next to a 
>telescope, been there , done that... "stand on, don't let your cable release 
>freeze"
>
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