Howdy! haven't posted here in ... years!! i got into astrophotography, and TBH it kinda killed my interest in amateur astronomy, although it's starting to creep back.
Anyway .... my father in law died a couple of weeks ago, its maybe quite pertinent to mention him here. Colin Cochran came here from Edinburgh, from my own native and bonny Scotland, in the early 60's as at the time he was one of the worlds foremost electronic and aerospace engineers, in a relatively new field, he worked at Tidbinbilla, and Honeysuckle Creek, as part of the tracking team for Apollo 11, after doing work NASA and a UK Aerospace company. He was instrumental in the leading work carried out here in the 60's and was a very well known person around the place, both for his knowledge and his accent. Indeed, we are lucky enough have all these signed NASA documents at home, and a medal made from the the original metal from Apollo 11, that sits on up on the unit! In short, anyone who knows anything about Tidbinbilla etc, will know who Colin was, or certainly have known of him. I was lucky enough to spend time with Colin before his very sudden death, and we joked about everything from the Higgs Bosson particle, to the best pubs on Edinburgh's Rose street, just behind the royal mile.
Anyway, we are cleaning out all of Colins things (which, he stored in MY garage, as he was a bit of a hoarder) and since he had no life insurance, we are trying to get some $$ for Anne, his widow, who herself, is now in a bad way.
I was charged with 2 things, selling his F10 6" reflector, that he made 50 years ago, with all home made parts, and finding out about this stuff, his old photographic equipment. Now, i don't know much about this kinda stuff, but i know there are plenty here who do, or who could at least expand on things for me, can anyone tell me about any of the equipment in the images? is it all junk? is any of it useable?
many thank
