Re: [Utah-astronomy] Long time..
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for? I been at it for a whole year and a half...I bet that is nothing compared to some of you. In fact more then not all of you. It is great being on this mailing list thanks. -Bruce Glad ___________________________________________________________________ Join the Space Program: Get FREE E-mail at http://www.space.com.
Bruce- I've been following the threads today, and it's good to hear from 'the younger' set. While I'm solidly middle-aged, I've only been involved in this hobby for a few years; I only wish I had gotten in to it earlier. Of course, middle-aged in galactic years is nothing, right Chuck? Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull) has us beat by 20 years or so and he's on stage tonight for a sold out show; never too old to rock & roll! I take it you are aware of the BinoPalooza Chuck has organized which takes place this thursday, june 13. You should come out; I think you would enjoy it. Joe Borgione -------------------
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for? I been at it for a whole year and a half...I bet that is nothing compared to some of you. In fact more then not all of you. It is great being on this mailing list thanks.
-Bruce Glad
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--- Joe Borgione <jborgion@xmission.com> wrote:
Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull) has us beat by 20 years or so and he's on stage tonight for a sold out show; never too old to rock & roll!
Tull songs related to astronomy: Astronomy Orion Big Dipper (not really astronomy...) And I'm off to that sold-out show myself! Ta! C. BTW, Tull's first album came out in 1968, the year I got started in astronomy, and yep, I liked 'em even then. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
I once had a crush in High School on a girl who could play "Bouree" on her flute... Wish I could join you guys tonight; enjoy! Hopefully one of you will bring some tunes with Thurs. BTW, are there any restrooms or water at the lakeside site? Rich --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Joe Borgione <jborgion@xmission.com> wrote:
Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull) has us beat by 20 years or so and he's on stage tonight for a sold out show; never too old to rock & roll!
Tull songs related to astronomy:
Astronomy Orion Big Dipper (not really astronomy...)
And I'm off to that sold-out show myself!
Ta!
C.
BTW, Tull's first album came out in 1968, the year I got started in astronomy, and yep, I liked 'em even then.
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Rich- The lakeside site is pretty barren, and fully void of any facilities. So its the sage bush to the north for boys and to the south for girls. My recomendation is to bring food and water; I'm thinking about a hibachi kind of thing.... I'm not able to go to Tull tonight, but I'm attending Lyle Lovett on Sunday. I did get to see Tull last time they were here, under the stars at Deer Valley; it was great, laying back observing the Andromeda galaxy with binoculars listening to them live.... Joe Borgione ------------------
I once had a crush in High School on a girl who could play "Bouree" on her flute...
Wish I could join you guys tonight; enjoy!
Hopefully one of you will bring some tunes with Thurs.
BTW, are there any restrooms or water at the lakeside site?
Rich
--- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Joe Borgione <jborgion@xmission.com> wrote:
Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull) has us beat by 20 years or so and he's on stage tonight for a sold out show; never too old to rock & roll!
Tull songs related to astronomy:
Astronomy Orion Big Dipper (not really astronomy...)
And I'm off to that sold-out show myself!
Ta!
C.
BTW, Tull's first album came out in 1968, the year I got started in astronomy, and yep, I liked 'em even then.
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--- Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hopefully one of you will bring some tunes with Thurs.
I always have Tull in the glove box, next to a pair of 10x25mm binos, and a tape measure.
BTW, are there any restrooms
Not as defined by polite society.
or water at the lakeside site?
Only what you bring in with you, and leave behind... This is a raw desert environment, with no amenities at all. Be prepared to spend a few self-sufficient hours there. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
Bruce, I got hooked at a very young age, but the addiction really took off at age 10 when my dad brought home H. A. Rey's (of "Curious George" fame) wonderful book "The Stars - A New Way To See Them"; it so captured my imagination and interest that I was never the same afterward. I took a penlight and painted the bulb with my mom's red nail polish and spent the next year outside every clear moonless night with that book learning the constellations and all the bright star names. In my opinion this was the best thing I could have done; long before I had a telescope, I knew my way around the stars, and when the telescope came some time later I didn't have any trouble with star charts or orientation. That was 35 years ago... Welcome to the grand voyage, and enjoy the journey! -Rich --- bruce_glad2@space.com wrote:
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for? I been at it for a whole year and a half...I bet that is nothing compared to some of you. In fact more then not all of you. It is great being on this mailing list thanks.
-Bruce Glad
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bruce_glad2@space.com wrote:
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for?
I started "seriously" looking at the sky with a telescope in about 1967 or 68, when I was about 10 years old. That is, that's when I started reading Sky & Telescope and learning the constellations, how to use setting circles, find objects, learn about optics, that kind of thing. I only had a 2.6-inch refractor and a 3" reflector. Only a year later, the parents of a good friend gave me an Edmund 4.25" f/11 equatorial reflector, when they got transferred to another city, rather than move it. And this INCREDIBLE thing happened at about the same time...a man landed on the moon! If you are too young to remember this, you should know that it was just the most remarkable, incredible thing. I mean big, BIG. For a while, everyone in the world felt a common bond of pride in our species. I recall Walter Cronkite shedding tears on-camera, speechless. I felt so proud to be a human being. Look what we did! People were jumping up and down, yelling "We're on the Moon! We're on the Moon!". Every boy in America had a model of a Saturn-V rocket in his room. How could a kid not be enthralled with the stars? So I guess that I'm a product of my times, and I've been doing this for almost 35 years. That said, there are couple of list members that I know have more years at it than I! (Eh, Brent? No, it's not true that Brent saw Halley's comet in 1910. Or that he mowed Percival Lowell's lawn for pocketmoney as a boy. It was Clyde Tombaugh's lawn.) Chuck ;) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
I just wish I could say that I taught Clyde Tombaugh to grind a mirror! I have been studying astronomy since the 40's though. I remember the book where I would color a face on the Sun in the picture of the Solar System. It ws called "A Golden Treasury of Natural History". I think I nearly had the astronomy portion memorized. Those were my first star charts, although I didn't use them until the early 60's. Brent --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
bruce_glad2@space.com wrote:
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for?
I started "seriously" looking at the sky with a telescope in about 1967 or 68, when I was about 10 years old. That is, that's when I started reading Sky & Telescope and learning the constellations, how to use setting circles, find objects, learn about optics, that kind of thing. I only had a 2.6-inch refractor and a 3" reflector. Only a year later, the parents of a good friend gave me an Edmund 4.25" f/11 equatorial reflector, when they got transferred to another city, rather than move it.
And this INCREDIBLE thing happened at about the same time...a man landed on the moon! If you are too young to remember this, you should know that it was just the most remarkable, incredible thing. I mean big, BIG. For a while, everyone in the world felt a common bond of pride in our species. I recall Walter Cronkite shedding tears on-camera, speechless. I felt so proud to be a human being. Look what we did! People were jumping up and down, yelling "We're on the Moon! We're on the Moon!". Every boy in America had a model of a Saturn-V rocket in his room. How could a kid not be enthralled with the stars?
So I guess that I'm a product of my times, and I've been doing this for almost 35 years.
That said, there are couple of list members that I know have more years at it than I! (Eh, Brent? No, it's not true that Brent saw Halley's comet in 1910.
Or that he mowed Percival Lowell's lawn for pocketmoney as a boy. It was Clyde Tombaugh's lawn.)
Chuck ;)
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Hi Friends, I'm formerly SLC and know many of you. Started when 10 years old in 1927. Thin ATM only a year old. Cut disks with home made circle cutter and ruined a bunch. No other ATMer's around. Muddled along for a couple of years. Ground flats for a diagonal. Talked my way into the H.S. chem lab when 12 to silver it. Polished on road tar and fought with a brutal TDE..It was a 4.1/2" with 1/4" of edge masked out working at F14 with a spherical surface. Now at 84 I'm buried in the fun of developing flex mirror technology. Flex web site available soon. Regards- Bill Kelley "in vitreum veritas". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Watson" <brentjwatson@yahoo.com> To: <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Long time..
I just wish I could say that I taught Clyde Tombaugh to grind a mirror! I have been studying astronomy since the 40's though. I remember the book where I would color a face on the Sun in the picture of the Solar System. It ws called "A Golden Treasury of Natural History". I think I nearly had the astronomy portion memorized. Those were my first star charts, although I didn't use them until the early 60's.
Brent
--- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
bruce_glad2@space.com wrote:
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for?
I started "seriously" looking at the sky with a telescope in about 1967 or 68, when I was about 10 years old. That is, that's when I started reading Sky & Telescope and learning the constellations, how to use setting circles, find objects, learn about optics, that kind of thing. I only had a 2.6-inch refractor and a 3" reflector. Only a year later, the parents of a good friend gave me an Edmund 4.25" f/11 equatorial reflector, when they got transferred to another city, rather than move it.
And this INCREDIBLE thing happened at about the same time...a man landed on the moon! If you are too young to remember this, you should know that it was just the most remarkable, incredible thing. I mean big, BIG. For a while, everyone in the world felt a common bond of pride in our species. I recall Walter Cronkite shedding tears on-camera, speechless. I felt so proud to be a human being. Look what we did! People were jumping up and down, yelling "We're on the Moon! We're on the Moon!". Every boy in America had a model of a Saturn-V rocket in his room. How could a kid not be enthralled with the stars?
So I guess that I'm a product of my times, and I've been doing this for almost 35 years.
That said, there are couple of list members that I know have more years at it than I! (Eh, Brent? No, it's not true that Brent saw Halley's comet in 1910.
Or that he mowed Percival Lowell's lawn for pocketmoney as a boy. It was Clyde Tombaugh's lawn.)
Chuck ;)
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Bill, where do you live now? -- Best wishes, Joe Bauman
Cottonwood, AZ C. --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Bill, where do you live now? -- Best wishes, Joe Bauman
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Joe And SLC friends, I remember you well. Always our public voice. For any who remember and care: William E. Kelley (Bill) 2059 S.Arrowhead Lane Cottonwood AZ 86326 Ph. 928-634-729 flex@commspeed.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman" <bau@desnews.com> To: <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Long time..
Bill, where do you live now? -- Best wishes, Joe Bauman
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Hey, Bill, glad to know that you're up and about again! Hope you are feeling better. Bill definitely wins the prize for longest interest in astronomy-when he started, Pluto wasn't even discovered yet! Chuck --- Bill Kelley <flex@commspeed.net> wrote:
Hi Friends,
I'm formerly SLC and know many of you. Started when 10 years old in 1927.
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bruce_glad2@space.com wrote:
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for?
My first look through a scope was when my mother took me to a friend's house when I was 8 (1957) to look at Saturn. In the early 60s she gave me a department store type scope that was awful for watching planets but did serve well for watching another kind of heavenly body (the girl next door). My astronomical interests were replaced by sky diving until the early 70s when I was in flight school and comet Kohoutek came on the scene leading me to join the local astronomy club (Tulsa, OK). One of the members had a C-8 (huge by the standards of the day) which instilled in me a life long love of orange telescopes. I've been active in astronomy (and jumping, flying and scuba) ever since. Patrick
I've been at this for 1-1/3 years. Saturnian years that is. I started in earnest in '63. Brent --- bruce_glad2@space.com wrote:
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for? I been at it for a whole year and a half...I bet that is nothing compared to some of you. In fact more then not all of you. It is great being on this mailing list thanks.
-Bruce Glad
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