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Dobsonian
The tete- “Dobsonian” comes from the society of astronomy. Specifically it refers to an astronomer named John Dobson. Most typically, it’s familiar to refer to a philosophy of telescope design John Dobson pioneered and popularized. Most usually, it’s used to refer to the overall stoicism of observing, of approaching astronomy, that Dobson promoted. I’m effective to be talking briefly about all three usages today.
When I was growing up in McKinley Leave on the south side of Chicago, the neighborhood was one of those peaceful, safe places where people didn’t power their doors. My friend and I often set up our telescopes on the footway out front and spent the whole night observing. Now and then people would flounce by and stop and ask what we were doing or police cruising history would stop to see what we were doing. We’d always show people Jupiter or Saturn and almost without oppose it would be a very cool moment where they’d look through the telescope and their eyes would go encyclopedic and they’d look back to the sky as if they couldn’t believe the forthright, tiny point of light was absolutely a beautiful, almost unimaginably large gas colossus planet.
That kind of experience is so much fun—introducing people to the wonders of the heavens—that a worldwide phenomenon sprung up a couple of decades back called “Footpath Astronomy.” Experienced astronomers, professionals and amateurs, set up telescopes on sidewalks in urban areas and lavish the evening showing people spiritual wonders.
John Dobson was the guiding radiance behind this movement. And because “normal” telescopes repeatedly fail to deliver naked eye views that look anything like what people await from photographs of the heavens, Dobson line re-imagined how a telescope could be designed and built so that people would in actuality see things with their naked eyes that look as comely as photographs of the heavens.
Before I talk about Dobsonian telescopes—Dobs,...
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