Crumby's Telescope Tomfoolery Notes - The Sweaty Hand and the Popsickles
Out we ventured towards the looming stygian darkness. Soon we discovered upon actually entering into the stygian darkness that loomed about, that the stygian darkness concealed much airborn water vapor.
"I'm stiflin' in this heat and humidity," cried out Lleu Llaw or me. I forget which one of us cried that out. But indeed it could have been either of us because we were both subject to the same environmental conditions.
Then Lleu Llaw cried out, "Beware Crumby, for the steady hand can not gain its normal steady purchase upon the great red tube.
Then I cried out, "Lo, Lleu Llaw, my dang spectacles are steamed up."
"Crumby, let us set forth and go look in the refrigerator and see if there are any popsickles that we might regale ourselves there with, and thus also cool ourselves off in the air conditioning whilst we enjoy our popsickles."
"All righty then."
Off we went. But anon we returned to the stygian darkness much comforted by the popsickles and with us we brought optical filters. Pre-popsickle, I had noticed how bright the moon appeared. The moon appeared very bright, and in fact, had given me a bad scare when I accidentally looked upon the moon's fair visage in the finder scope. Why the heck was the moon so bright? Perhaps, all the tiny water molecules in the air were exaggerating the moon's normal brightness.
So I determined to view the moon for a time through optical filters. First, I affixed a moon filter to a 16mm UO Konig and viewed the moon through that telescopery gear. The moon was too bright. Then I took off the moon filter and tried out the Orion Ultrascopic filter. Too dang bright. Then I screwed the moon filter into the Ultrascopic filter and used them both. Still, too dang bright. What the heck? Even with both those filters, I couldn't look at the fearful moon visage for long without making my noggin hurt. Is this a portent of something? Have I been wicked? Yikes!
No, no, no, there must be a simple scientific explanation.
"I'm stiflin' in this heat and humidity," cried out Lleu Llaw or me. I forget which one of us cried that out. But indeed it could have been either of us because we were both subject to the same environmental conditions.
Then Lleu Llaw cried out, "Beware Crumby, for the steady hand can not gain its normal steady purchase upon the great red tube.
Then I cried out, "Lo, Lleu Llaw, my dang spectacles are steamed up."
"Crumby, let us set forth and go look in the refrigerator and see if there are any popsickles that we might regale ourselves there with, and thus also cool ourselves off in the air conditioning whilst we enjoy our popsickles."
"All righty then."
Off we went. But anon we returned to the stygian darkness much comforted by the popsickles and with us we brought optical filters. Pre-popsickle, I had noticed how bright the moon appeared. The moon appeared very bright, and in fact, had given me a bad scare when I accidentally looked upon the moon's fair visage in the finder scope. Why the heck was the moon so bright? Perhaps, all the tiny water molecules in the air were exaggerating the moon's normal brightness.
So I determined to view the moon for a time through optical filters. First, I affixed a moon filter to a 16mm UO Konig and viewed the moon through that telescopery gear. The moon was too bright. Then I took off the moon filter and tried out the Orion Ultrascopic filter. Too dang bright. Then I screwed the moon filter into the Ultrascopic filter and used them both. Still, too dang bright. What the heck? Even with both those filters, I couldn't look at the fearful moon visage for long without making my noggin hurt. Is this a portent of something? Have I been wicked? Yikes!
No, no, no, there must be a simple scientific explanation.
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, September 10, 2006
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