David Dean:  

The Telescope, By David Dean 6/29/2021 Light curling and bending and reflecting down thru a large cylinder of optical assembly. Going thru an eye piece to tickle one's eye from the back thru the lens of the eye, to give such spender of lights delights. Hinging bending pointing to the next object to see a small blob compare to the pictures you see in the books and now on the web, Not fair, not fair I say. An attitude from Amadeus. Great move. a must see. The Telescope, Back in the 60's my dad gave me a Bosch and Lomb refractor telescope, A small telescope but the best that Dad could afford on a TUSD salary in the 60's, I used it to some point but do not remember the views I saw in this telescope. But the bug of astronomy was started, A small telescope, a small lust for the sky and all the wonders growing up in the astronomy Capitol of the world. and Kitt Peak. We would take day trips to Kitt Peck site southwest of Tucson. Take the tours and see the large buildings, what was in those large buildings?. What new views of the sky was being un-folded thru the nighttime dream job. WOW. What do they do in those large white buildings ? In the late 70's my first year working at Arizona Portland Cement Co. I got to view thru a custom built 12-inch reflector telescope that a Hughes engineer had built in his spare time. One summer night, or late spring, I do not remember, But the bug or lust of the sky's and astronomy returned, I had to have a telescope, NOW. So having some bucks to spend I went off and went down to a El. Con mall to find a camera store and got a C8. I found some friends that wanted to spend the cold nights of winter or hot summer nights viewing the night sky,s looking for the objects that can now be seen on the webb.. You do not need a telescope today. (sad) Really Sad. Its all on the webb. But back to the telescope. We spent many a night viewing the wonders of the sky near Tucson with hi on sugar and caffeine and non-sleep nights viewing the skies. My sister-in-law wanted to go telescoping, Oh we can build a big campfire and then try to find those hard-to-find faint objects, I never took her telescoping. Some do not get the point, Kids have better wisdom. Really a campfire near my scope. A big campfire, really, Ya that's what they do at the telescope sites NOT. for many reasons. Sorry, for family baggage. Then I started to build telescopes and buy them. I could not get enough of the optical assemblies that if put together right would give such spender. A hobby within a hobby. What fun. This is an art that the computer and phone has helped and taken away or make better at the same time. Then due to employment luck, I got a job with the U of A but my first department was not into astronomy, but into paddle Fish, and cool towers and plants, Environmental studies and stuff I did not study in school but was happy to learn and develop for I was doing drawings and design for the U of A. Wow. After 3 years working at ERL, (Environmental Reasearch Lab) The department was on it's last legs with lay off meetings (I will be the next to go I raised my hand ) But falling on the sword with one department I got to work in astronomy in the next department. Wow cool big mirrors and polishing cells and parts and parts and parts, W...Expand for more