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Originally Posted by m11
Hi Rom,
A lot of generous fellow astronomers.
Is there other stuff or items you think she would need that would help?
Regards,
Mel
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Hi Mel,
I have been pretty dumbfounded by the generosity, but then again, not really. Its common on this site
. I had a couple of long focal length eyepieces for the scope but that's been extended by a considerable degree. At the moment, she has a 10" F4.5 scope with all this extra stuff and the promise of a DSLR to pursue some imaging. About the only other thing I can think of is a decent finder or Telrad but I guess that's not essential at this stage.
At some point, I'll try to organise some kind of on-site activity for her, maybe at a professional observatory like UTas.; I need to keep a degree of professional separation, for obvious reasons, otherwise I'd let her access my soon to be finished obs
I am concentrating on developing her observing skills and back ground knowledge about the subject at the moment.
I must admit, I'm enjoying the experience of encouraging her a lot more than I should.