The 413th Meeting of the Altrincham and District Astronomical Society, held at Timperley Village Club on Friday 3rd of February 2006 at 8pm
Those present were:
Paul Clark, Kevin Thurstan, Mark Crossley,
Tony Aremia, Mike Cook, Norman Thurstan,
Richard Bullock, Terry Bailey, Geoff Flood,
Colin Eaves, Geoffrey Walton, Graham Sinagola,
Nick Dixon, Ged Birbeck, Paul Brierly,
Chris Suddick, Peter Baugh, Don Utton,
Colin Bowler, John Tipping, Andy Carroll,
Barry Carroll, 4 Others
(Total 26)
The chairman Paul Clark opened the meeting by welcoming everyone to the 413th meeting and announced that tonight’s talk was one man and his telescopes by mike cook, telling the story of his experience with the telescopes he has owned over the last six years.
His interest was kicked off by his uncle Malcolm and he bought himself a pair of 50mm binoculars, but soon wanted more. So he went to buy some larger 80mm binoculars and came away with a 5 inch Macksutov-Cassegrain.
Mike then went on to describe his buying, selling and sold ownership of at least 24 telescopes of various designs and sizes over the past six years. These included a 5” Darkstar reflector, 10” & 14” home made Dobsonions, Nexstar 114, Celestron 80mm refractor, Konus 80mm refractor, ETX 70 tube assembly, Intes MN56 5” Maksutov Newtonian, Orion 6” tube assembly, Helios 8” reflector and 77mm Borg refractor. Next he sold everything he still had and got a 12” Meade LX200 with a Takahashi FS102 as a finder. Soon after he took it down to Devon for a star party and returned home with a TMB 105 triplet refractor instead.
After the tea break he continued with some of the other scopes he has owned since including a Celestron C5, a 7” Mirage Maksutov with a Takahashi FS60 as a finder, 63mm Karl Zeis refractor, Takahashi FS70.
Currently he has an 8.3” Takahashi CN212 Cassegrain/Newtonian, a Takahashi Sky 90 refractor and a Celestron C14 Schmidt Cassegrain.
He also owned, for a short while, a 6-foot observatory dome, which didn’t make it into his own garden before being sold.
Mike was thanked for his talk and we move don to the society business.
First was the news that the Stockport sky beam planning application had been refused by the full planning council on environmental grounds.
There was no news as yet from the council and the possible surrender of the obs lease.
The meeting was then brought to a close.
Those present were:
Paul Clark, Kevin Thurstan, Mark Crossley,
Tony Aremia, Mike Cook, Norman Thurstan,
Richard Bullock, Terry Bailey, Geoff Flood,
Colin Eaves, Geoffrey Walton, Graham Sinagola,
Nick Dixon, Ged Birbeck, Paul Brierly,
Chris Suddick, Peter Baugh, Don Utton,
Colin Bowler, John Tipping, Andy Carroll,
Barry Carroll, 4 Others
(Total 26)
The chairman Paul Clark opened the meeting by welcoming everyone to the 413th meeting and announced that tonight’s talk was one man and his telescopes by mike cook, telling the story of his experience with the telescopes he has owned over the last six years.
His interest was kicked off by his uncle Malcolm and he bought himself a pair of 50mm binoculars, but soon wanted more. So he went to buy some larger 80mm binoculars and came away with a 5 inch Macksutov-Cassegrain.
Mike then went on to describe his buying, selling and sold ownership of at least 24 telescopes of various designs and sizes over the past six years. These included a 5” Darkstar reflector, 10” & 14” home made Dobsonions, Nexstar 114, Celestron 80mm refractor, Konus 80mm refractor, ETX 70 tube assembly, Intes MN56 5” Maksutov Newtonian, Orion 6” tube assembly, Helios 8” reflector and 77mm Borg refractor. Next he sold everything he still had and got a 12” Meade LX200 with a Takahashi FS102 as a finder. Soon after he took it down to Devon for a star party and returned home with a TMB 105 triplet refractor instead.
After the tea break he continued with some of the other scopes he has owned since including a Celestron C5, a 7” Mirage Maksutov with a Takahashi FS60 as a finder, 63mm Karl Zeis refractor, Takahashi FS70.
Currently he has an 8.3” Takahashi CN212 Cassegrain/Newtonian, a Takahashi Sky 90 refractor and a Celestron C14 Schmidt Cassegrain.
He also owned, for a short while, a 6-foot observatory dome, which didn’t make it into his own garden before being sold.
Mike was thanked for his talk and we move don to the society business.
First was the news that the Stockport sky beam planning application had been refused by the full planning council on environmental grounds.
There was no news as yet from the council and the possible surrender of the obs lease.
The meeting was then brought to a close.
posted by Kevin at 8:46 AM
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