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Rodenstock 8x 488nm Beam Expander Telescope w/Mount
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NewRed Dot LASER SIGHT Scope Sighting Telescope+ Gun Rifle Pistol Mount JG-2
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Celestron CG-5GT Mount Head with Controller
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Astro Physics 706 telescope mount
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NewCelestron Dovetail Plate For 8" SCT Telescope & CGE Mount - Mounting Bar
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Meade ETX-70 70mm Refractor Telescope - TUBE ONLY - READY FOR YOUR BRACKET MOUNT
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Parker Custom Case for the Meade 8" LX90 SCT Telescope and mount
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Pair of 94mm Inside Diameter Pre-Owned GUIDE SCOPE RINGS
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UNITRON TELESCOPE & EQUATORIAL MOUNT 60MM X 900MM
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NewBYERS ultra-precision 9-inch telescope drive
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Texas TX University McDonald Mount Locke Telescope Postcard Old Vintage Card PC
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NewBYERS 9-inch telescope drive system
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New Telescope Camera 6x Optical Zoom Lens +Tripod Mount Set for Nokia N8 ZVTE042
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NewFLUSH FLAT SMOOTH Mount Car & Truck Stereo Radio POWER ANTENNA Aerial Telescope
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NewNew Silver 50mm Refractor Telescope with Tripod w Mount
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Stellarvue TPBV2 Balancing Plate
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Tele Vue 20mm Plossl eyepiece
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Stellarvue M1 Grab & Go Alt-Az Mount, Vixen Saddle Plate / Stellarvue MEC...
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NewNew White 16-40 x 80mm Telescope with Tripod w Mount
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1922 The New Heavens, Hooker & Mount Wilson Telescopes, Giant Stars, Galaxies
$26.00
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Dobsonian


The brief conversation “Dobsonian” comes from the great of astronomy. Specifically it refers to an astronomer named John Dobson. Most typically, it’s acclimated to to refer to a philosophy of telescope destine John Dobson pioneered and popularized. Most in general, it’s used to refer to the overall metaphysics of observing, of approaching astronomy, that Dobson promoted. I’m current to be talking briefly about all three usages today.

When I was growing up in McKinley Store on the south side of Chicago, the neighborhood was one of those hush, safe places where people didn’t incarcerate their doors. My friend and I often set up our telescopes on the sidewalk out front and done up the whole night observing. Now and then people would hike by and stop and ask what we were doing or police cruising olden times would stop to see what we were doing. We’d always show people Jupiter or Saturn and almost without debarment it would be a very cool moment where they’d look through the summarize and their eyes would go wide and they’d look back to the sky as if they couldn’t assume the simple, tiny point of supportable was actually a beautiful, almost unimaginably big gas giant planet.

That kind of adventure is so much fun—introducing people to the wonders of the heavens—that a epidemic phenomenon sprung up a couple of decades back called “Walk Astronomy.” Experienced astronomers, professionals and amateurs, set up telescopes on sidewalks in urban areas and waste the evening showing people sublime wonders.

John Dobson was the guiding radiation behind this movement. And because “normal” telescopes customarily fail to deliver naked eye views that look anything like what people have from photographs of the heavens, Dobson flatly re-imagined how a telescope could be designed and built so that people would in fact see things with their naked eyes that look as fair as photographs of the heavens.

Before I talk about Dobsonian telescopes—Dobs,...

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