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Im certain we can come to an agreement on the price but it’s hard for me to visualize without seeing a photo. Could you send me (or post) one? It sounds massive! I would only keep the OTA, but I imagine neither of us would want to be stuck with the fork mount but picking up would be no problem. I regularly visit my daughter in Guilford which is not too far. Seeing a photo would be helpful. Thanks. Jay Tate at the Spaceguard Centre might want the mount.
It really is a great little book! Thank you Sir Patrick. Your story is fascinating too! I was also school chums with Cdr. Henry Hatfield’s kids, and I remember the telescope he built out of biscuit tins. I dont know if its the one he used for the ‘Hatfield Lunar Atlas’ but it was a sight to behold!
This is sad news indeed. Bill Bryson devotes a delightful chapter to Bob Evans in his best-selling book ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’. I bet he’s up there somewhere sharing stories with Leslie Peltier and George Alcock, the three great visual supernova hunters.
My profile pic might be of interest to some. Its me looking through the transit telescope at Palermo National Observatory that Piazzi used to discover dwarf planet Ceres on 1st Jan 1801
