Crumby's Telescope Tomfoolery Notes - Wake on Up There, Lleu Llaw
Get on up from there Lleu Llaw. You have suckled upon those Ample Bosoms long enough.
Er. For Goddess’ Sake Crumby, what time is it?
It’s plenty late Lleu Llaw, Ogma shall be bearing down on us, anon. Get yourself on up.
Lleu Llaw arises from slumber.
Mercy Lleu Llaw, didn’t anyone ever teach you about undears. Put some dang undears on, mercy! And then get on out to the east pasture. Haul out the great red tube, and have it ready, fer me, please, at the accustomed general location.
Can I perform my ablutions first, Crumby.
Yepper, but hurry on up, Lleu Llaw. Mercy! Yepper, now what additional gear should I take along, for the hours are short ere the fickle Ogma afflicts me. Here now, I’ll take along this goofy old 40 mm plossl, the 1.8x barlow and the 7.2-23 mm zoom. Yepper, these have become my favorites for they are a versatile and easy to tote combination, all of them fitting easily within a spacious pocket or two of my blue jean jacket. It sure is nice to be wearing pockets again in the wee hours and the wee-er hours. Yepper. Off I go.
It was in the neighborhood of 5:15 AM when we assembled around the great red tube. Here’s what we espied satisfactorily for our purposes: Wasat, Eskimo Nebula, Castor, that some call Beta Gemini, and, Mu Canis Majoris The last of these was a first espyization. In many ways, Mu Canis Majoris is a perfect fun double. The combo stars are fairly close, about 3 arcseconds, and this morning, at any rate, they showed lots of color. The primary appeared yellow-orange and the secondary appeared greenish-white. Nice!
Using that zoom eyepiece I am so fond of is like fishing. How so? Easy that, if you don’t catch any fish, you don’t have to clean any fish. If you don’t know what magnification the zoom eyepiece is magnifying at, you don’t have to write that magnification number down in your notes. So I’m not sure what the best power was for espying the double star, Mu, is, somewhere betwixt 11x and 23x.
The virtual image of my favorite easily transported eps may be adjacent. The Grizzly is included for scale. All these essential items fit easily in the spacious pockets. Let’s see now. How about some arithmetic. The magnification range of the zoom is 1250 divided by 7.2-23. Barlowed, it’s all that times 1.8x. All righty then!!!! Plus, the barlowed zoom at 7.2 is within one mm of the focal plane of the 40mm plossl. Pretty neat huh, and very handy too, for a star hopper.
But now, on to more serious, but less technical, Tomfoolery.
The little dog, or raccoon, whichever, seems to have something going on with the Monoceros, particularly with the nether regions of the Mononceros. Lleu Llaw and I shall have to figure out the antics of that pair, Canis Minor, and the Monoceros, anon.
Later the next morning.
Whoa! What got into me? Scratch the above. It's the Big Dog, Canis Major that has something going with the nether regions of the Monoceros. Mercy! Out I went into the stygian darkness confused about the respective dispositions of these two celestial dogs relative to the Monoceros. "Where's the head of the dang dog, Lleu Llaw? It aint here."
"I tried to tell you Crumby, you have mixed up the twain dogs."
"Er. Correct."
Er. For Goddess’ Sake Crumby, what time is it?
It’s plenty late Lleu Llaw, Ogma shall be bearing down on us, anon. Get yourself on up.
Lleu Llaw arises from slumber.
Mercy Lleu Llaw, didn’t anyone ever teach you about undears. Put some dang undears on, mercy! And then get on out to the east pasture. Haul out the great red tube, and have it ready, fer me, please, at the accustomed general location.
Can I perform my ablutions first, Crumby.
Yepper, but hurry on up, Lleu Llaw. Mercy! Yepper, now what additional gear should I take along, for the hours are short ere the fickle Ogma afflicts me. Here now, I’ll take along this goofy old 40 mm plossl, the 1.8x barlow and the 7.2-23 mm zoom. Yepper, these have become my favorites for they are a versatile and easy to tote combination, all of them fitting easily within a spacious pocket or two of my blue jean jacket. It sure is nice to be wearing pockets again in the wee hours and the wee-er hours. Yepper. Off I go.
It was in the neighborhood of 5:15 AM when we assembled around the great red tube. Here’s what we espied satisfactorily for our purposes: Wasat, Eskimo Nebula, Castor, that some call Beta Gemini, and, Mu Canis Majoris The last of these was a first espyization. In many ways, Mu Canis Majoris is a perfect fun double. The combo stars are fairly close, about 3 arcseconds, and this morning, at any rate, they showed lots of color. The primary appeared yellow-orange and the secondary appeared greenish-white. Nice!
Using that zoom eyepiece I am so fond of is like fishing. How so? Easy that, if you don’t catch any fish, you don’t have to clean any fish. If you don’t know what magnification the zoom eyepiece is magnifying at, you don’t have to write that magnification number down in your notes. So I’m not sure what the best power was for espying the double star, Mu, is, somewhere betwixt 11x and 23x.
The virtual image of my favorite easily transported eps may be adjacent. The Grizzly is included for scale. All these essential items fit easily in the spacious pockets. Let’s see now. How about some arithmetic. The magnification range of the zoom is 1250 divided by 7.2-23. Barlowed, it’s all that times 1.8x. All righty then!!!! Plus, the barlowed zoom at 7.2 is within one mm of the focal plane of the 40mm plossl. Pretty neat huh, and very handy too, for a star hopper. But now, on to more serious, but less technical, Tomfoolery.
The little dog, or raccoon, whichever, seems to have something going on with the Monoceros, particularly with the nether regions of the Mononceros. Lleu Llaw and I shall have to figure out the antics of that pair, Canis Minor, and the Monoceros, anon.
Later the next morning.
Whoa! What got into me? Scratch the above. It's the Big Dog, Canis Major that has something going with the nether regions of the Monoceros. Mercy! Out I went into the stygian darkness confused about the respective dispositions of these two celestial dogs relative to the Monoceros. "Where's the head of the dang dog, Lleu Llaw? It aint here."
"I tried to tell you Crumby, you have mixed up the twain dogs."
"Er. Correct."
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