Finding your telescope optics in a cardboard box, packed in a
corner
of a damp basement, and the primary mirror is so covered in mold that
it looks
like a Petri dish.
Watching an airport reservation clerk put a fragile sticker on the box containing your telescope optics, and then push it off the edge of a table, allowing it to free fall three feet onto a conveyer belt.
Asking your seven year old son to hold onto the truss tube assembly while you go in to get a tool and returning to find that he has finger painted all over the primary mirror with mud.
Setting up the telescope for the first time and realizing it's the only thing in the backyard that the dog hasn't scent marked, and it's on his list of things to do.
Finally purchasing the vintage C90 that you have wanted for the past 30 years, and it arrives with a loose part rattling inside the optical tube.
Looking at the loose part inside your telescope and realizing you don't have a clue what it is, what it does, or if you can repair it.
Completing the domed observatory you have spent 6 months building, moving you telescope into the observatory, and then it is overcast or rains every night for almost 2 months.
You finally get a clear evening to try your new observatory, and the neighbor decides thats the night to light his Christmas display: 3,000 blinking lights that wash out the night sky for the next month.
No matter how large a back yard you have, your dog's favorite spot will be right in front of the observatory door.
No matter how aware you are that the dog's favorite spot is in front of the observatory door, you will always step in it.
Undountably more to come.....
Watching an airport reservation clerk put a fragile sticker on the box containing your telescope optics, and then push it off the edge of a table, allowing it to free fall three feet onto a conveyer belt.
Asking your seven year old son to hold onto the truss tube assembly while you go in to get a tool and returning to find that he has finger painted all over the primary mirror with mud.
Setting up the telescope for the first time and realizing it's the only thing in the backyard that the dog hasn't scent marked, and it's on his list of things to do.
Finally purchasing the vintage C90 that you have wanted for the past 30 years, and it arrives with a loose part rattling inside the optical tube.
Looking at the loose part inside your telescope and realizing you don't have a clue what it is, what it does, or if you can repair it.
Completing the domed observatory you have spent 6 months building, moving you telescope into the observatory, and then it is overcast or rains every night for almost 2 months.
You finally get a clear evening to try your new observatory, and the neighbor decides thats the night to light his Christmas display: 3,000 blinking lights that wash out the night sky for the next month.
No matter how large a back yard you have, your dog's favorite spot will be right in front of the observatory door.
No matter how aware you are that the dog's favorite spot is in front of the observatory door, you will always step in it.
Undountably more to come.....
