[Lvas] My Rant

Wed Apr 1 08:30:09 PDT 2009

Doug,

An opposing viewpoint. As I would like to reiterate...opposing viewpoints are very good and can be productive and healthy. 

Why ride a bicycle when you can ride a motorcycle? Why torture yourself to be the first of the group to crest the top of a very steep mountain? Why exercise and lift weights when it is much easier to lay on the couch and eat potato chips? Why be a vegetarian when fatty unhealthy meats taste so much better than raw vegetables? 

Do you like challenges and are you competitive? How would you describe yourself? 

Often time the easy road is not the best and most rewarding. When life is too easy, it becomes difficult to endure the hard times.

It's "the thrill of the hunt...not necessarily the kill". Consider this when you are just taking pictures for show. 

I love to help children see through a telescope, but that is not my primary reason to be in amateur astronomy. I have offered much help to many youngsters of the years, but my successes in this area have been few. 

I have a passion to use averted vision and "squint" to see the fine detail of a very faint galaxy with my 4-inch refractor...not my 10-inch reflector, at times. 

I love imaging but I choose to let others of which are better in the discipline do this most exacting work. The imaging that I receive almost daily, I use for study with my notes and sketching. As I have mentioned earlier I am always trying to be the first to locate a faint SN in a very faint galaxy.

It is often difficult for "most" 10-year old children to fully appreciate a faint galaxy when the temperature is 22°. I am a detailed observer and I found this out pretty quickly.

Answering another question, why sketch?  If I told you, it is my opinion that you could not possibly understand. I think you will agree fully with me on this one as you said so yourself. 

I encourage your thoughts regarding my attempt to answer some of your questions. 

I have a question for you...what do you do with your images? 

This is just my attempt to answer questions and challenge opposing views...to clear the air so to speak.

Best regards to all...roger ivester

    I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.      Abraham Lincoln

> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:49:56 -0700
> From: doug.phillipson at cox.net
> To: lvas at lvlug.org
> Subject: Re: [Lvas] My Rant
> 
> Fred, it is I that owe you the apology for the "refrigerator art" 
> comment that offended you so much. I humbly ask for your forgiveness. 
> Yes I'm into "Video Assisted" astronomy. I sold Rob my gear, his 
> Mallincam. The Mallincam is extremely simple to use and after buying 3 
> different scopes over the years, an 8" C8, a 15 Inch Discovery Dob, for 
> sale by the way, and a 10" Meade, I was wholly disappointed in what I 
> could see through the eyepiece. Then I discovered the Mallincam. It 
> opened up a whole new world for me. I could effectively see stuff on a 
> screen, in full color, without having to adjust focus for each 
> individuals eyes. I could show 100 people many things in just a few 
> minutes at star parties, whereas through the eyepiece they would say 
> things like "Well I think I see it, is it that fuzzy thing"? I got REAL 
> tired of that. The Mallincam's technology overcame the aperture fever I 
> was badly experiencing. So I still don't understand why people "Draw" 
> stuff when they can actually experience the real pictures themselves. A 
> scope large enough to see what I can see through the Mallincam would 
> cost 30,000 bucks and I probably still would not see any color in the 
> object! I was looking for something inexpensive, relatively, to 
> overcome that darn fever. I assume we are all in this hobby to see as 
> much as we can, and the public likes those "Hubble like" color pics, for 
> sure. So the Mallincan is the best of both worlds, low cost and Hubble 
> like results. So I am genuinely sorry if I offended you, but Video 
> assisted astronomy is absolutely the way to go if you want to see more 
> that faint fuzzies, color in your objects, real structure in galaxies, 
> not have to use averted vision to "almost" see something and keep the 
> cost to a minimum. I for one want to see as much as I can, why limit 
> myself to the eyepiece when such cool and inexpensive tools are available?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Douglas Phillipson
> 
> 
> 
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