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 Dr Weems |
I'm "rebuilding" a filthy telescope! |
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Posts: 38663 (07/06/08 4:01 AM) |
It's not easy....I literally took every piece of this Celestron™ telescope apart and cleaned it.
I have to put it back together now. :c ( 
P.S. I almost got in a fight with some punk at the baseball game tonight. I would knocked his Cubbies head CLEAN OFF! grrrrrr |
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Posts: 725 (07/06/08 7:06 AM) Registered user |
Just go to NASA and ask to use Hubble. It's better.
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Posts: 1062 (07/06/08 7:26 AM) Registered User |
Is that a reflector or refractor? I tried to rebuild an old reflecting telescope when I was in high school, and there was no frickin' way I could get the
mirrors lined up right. I haven't had a telescope in a long time because I live in the city now, and there's too much light pollution to see anything
in the sky. So I just have some binoculars for peeking into peoples' windows.
(BTW: Killing Cubs fans in not considered murder in 49 states. Some places even offer a bounty on them, but you have to bring in their heads with the cap still on it in order to collect). |
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Posts: 38664 (07/06/08 11:43 AM) |
I don't know.....but it has a LOT of parts...lots of lenses. They came out so fast, I couldn't keep track of how they were all sitting in there.
I'm looking on-line for the standard set-up.
P.S. Cubbies clown better hope I don't meet him again in a dark alley. |
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Dr Weems |
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Posts: 38666 (07/06/08 11:58 AM) |
It's a refractor.
Why do I have the feeling this may end up in the garbage? 
No plans. |
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Beefcake |
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Posts: 1064 (07/06/08 12:07 PM) Registered User |
Refractors are what most of us call telescopes: there are a series of lenses, and light comes in one end and you look in the other end to see the image.
Reflectors have a series of mirrors inside that bounce the image back and forth, which increases the magnification. I used to know the physics of it, but I
don't remember anymore. I just remember that reflectors are sometimes called "Newtonian" telescopes because they were invented by Isaac Newton.
Apparently, he was a pretty smart guy.
Either way, good luck -- sounds like a pretty challenging project. And hell, how much clarity do you really need to see that lady across the street in her bath tub? |
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Posts: 399 (07/06/08 12:07 PM) Registered user |
Who is this Weems person and why is he still posting here? His affectedly bizarre "humor" is entertaining only to people without brain matter.
Dr. Weems, do you want to be on your deathbed and look back and realize you spent a full 10% of your life at Off Topic? DO YOU? |
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Beefcake |
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Posts: 1066 (07/06/08 12:15 PM) Registered User |
Do any of us?
Let's admit the truth: we're all pathetic. |
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Posts: 6248 (07/06/08 12:31 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
I wish that someone would repair my old Wollensak binoculars that belonged to my nan. {...I use them for observing hummingbirds, you nastays...] |
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Posts: 3 (07/06/08 1:25 PM) |
A Filthy Telescope must be akin to a Rusty Trombone?
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Dr Weems |
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Posts: 38669 (07/07/08 8:22 AM) |
Here it is.....it's a Celestron #21055.
Can someone help me find a parts diagram for it? Like a good picture showing it all exploded apart. |
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Posts: 4935 (07/07/08 10:46 AM) Registered User |
Pervert. You remind me of Dudley Moore in the movie "10".
So, who did you go and see play? The Salt Lake City Polygamists? Nice uniforms they wear: 
And any Cubs fan would whoop your fat ass. |
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Posts: 7101 (07/07/08 10:54 AM) Registered user |
10% might be low.
I find Weems' post educational. Jealousy will get you nowhere. |
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Dr Weems |
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Posts: 38678 (07/07/08 12:42 PM) |
Are all Cubbies fans tniy little men with poorly trimmed sideburns?
I really shoulda kicked his dumbass. YOU PEOPLE are not being helpful about this telescope issue. Usually, OT is so helpful. |
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Posts: 7112 (07/07/08 12:46 PM) Registered user |
*sigh*
Write the company and say the telescope you bought is missing the instructions. They'll send it to you. Try not to tell them what your REALLY going to use it for. |
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Dr Weems |
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Posts: 38680 (07/07/08 12:50 PM) |
No....that never works.
I never heard back from the KLACKER™ makers. (That knot on my head has NEVER gone away.) |
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Posts: 16422 (07/07/08 12:53 PM) |
(That knot on my head has NEVER gone away.) That explains it. |
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Posts: 5141 (07/07/08 12:58 PM) Registered User |
How did this telescope get so filthy? Did you really need to take it apart? Wouldn't an external cleaning been a better idea?
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Dr Weems |
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Posts: 38681 (07/07/08 1:15 PM) |
The neighbor left the rear eyepieces unscrewed and in bags....dirt and spiders got inside the tube.
He was storing it in his garage like an idiot(he's a paralegal.   I'm getting closer but no details blow-up found yet.
It says I can see Saturn's rings and craters on the moon with this baby. |
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Posts: 6251 (07/07/08 2:24 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
This has gotten me in the mood to have my Wollensak Rambler 4X binoculars repaired. [deleted] Maybe I'll find a link and maybe I'll share it. |
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Posts: 4936 (07/07/08 2:50 PM) Registered User |
Dr Weems wrote: I can just imagine you kicking someone's ass. And sorry, I will not help you with your sick perversion. People who own telescopes and/or binoculars are not to be trusted. Dr Weems wrote: Can you see Uranus? |
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