Northeast Gardening: Todays Weather in Your Garden - 28, 1 by WaterCan2

WaterCan2 wrote:
Sunny, Clear blue skies this am, projected high of 80°. ☺

Thanks Anita, most people don’t realize how much they can see with an amateur telescope, they assume you need a 40” lens when in fact the telescopes nowadays are very good quality and within reach of almost every budget. Galileo saw Jupiter’s four moons with a handmade 3” scope, in fact if it wasn’t for Jupiter’s brightness you could see the moons with the naked eye.
I have more pics in an overly heavy cardboard box I keep in the crawlspace. They are prints and negatives I developed myself years ago. Most are B&W, but just before I left astro- photography I had bought a color analyzer for my darkroom and started taking Color sandwiched shots with B&W film. Job responsibilities took me out of NY and I had to pack up my darkroom and relocate a couple of times & the demands of the job took precedence over the hobby. By the time I got back my hands, my knees and my back told me that the telescopes had gotten heavier and since its very hard to ignore them when they complain, I take it easier now don’t use them as much as I’d like to. There very heavy to take apart, put back together, then align, observe, & then take apart again in one evening!

- I’ll see what I can find down there and post a couple sometime, (I don’t want to turn ‘The weather thread” into ‘The Astro- thread” look what happened to ‘clouds’ & 'The cloud thread’! Lol! ☺