[Lvas] Few more pics

[Fred Rayworth]

Roger,

 

I can understand how Mr. Mallas saw the dark region back then. Light pollution was not near what it is now. I also suspect his optics were much better in that Unitron. I remember that 4" monster being a hit or miss thing, especially for the price back then. However, most I looked through (3, I think) had very decent optics and with the f/15, those lenses didn't have to be all that thick. Correction was also much better. I'd heard from a couple of people that there were a few crap scopes out there, but not that often.

 

The Unitron 4" is an absolute monster and is mainly an observatory scope. I remember some of them were bristling with five or six finders and guide scopes that were pretty much useless!

 

Fred

 

 


 


From: drivester at hotmail.com
To: lvas at lvlug.org
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:11:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [Lvas] Few more pics



Jay and Annette,
 
I am certainly enjoying your images. M-64 is especially interesting to me as on nights of less than excellent seeing I cannot see the dark region with my 10-inch.
 
John Mallas of the Messier Album "could see the dark region with a 60mm refractor and found it easy in his 4-inch Unitron f/15 refractor but subdewed in an 8-inch". (1958-1962)
 
 
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



 
> From: AJSnyder at cox.net
> To: Lvas at lvlug.org
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:43:00 -0700
> Subject: [Lvas] Few more pics
> 
> Here are a few more from the night. Jason
> 
> Black eye Nebula, Eagle Nebula, and Dumb Bell Nebula
> 



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