Meade or Celestron? Revealed: what Obama uses!

[deanm]

No probs with light pollution..

http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/astronomy/archive/2015/10/01/presidential-star-party.aspx

Dean

[blink138]

need to turn off more than a few of those lights!
pat

[LewisM]

Sad to see every photo I have seen him with a telescope has been made in China. Signs of the times for US production

[AstralTraveller]

I'm glad to see President Obama leading by example. I, too, always observe in a suite and tie. Those photons have come a long way and it is only right to dress to greet them. It lends a certain gravitas to the evening. :P

[LewisM]

I wonder if he kowtows to photons like he does the Sheikhs, Emirs, Chinese and Cubans?

http://therightscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/obama-bows-to-king-abdullah.jpg

[RB]

We're getting off the topic a bit !

:P

[LewisM]

Yes, I apologise.

He does have the traditional contorted face of unseasoned astronomers though: http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/091008/GAL-09Oct08-2761/media/PHO-09Oct08-181070.jpg

[LewisM]

And you'd think the guy would have had rotating rings for the POTUS : http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/479086062-president-barack-obama-looks-through-a-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=X7WJLa88Cweo9HktRLaNXjcTIAmBAn5Kq q6Jeyxd63GPqyLK0FG9Y8gukmRAFV%2F%2B LmasCCPrsVrkVVqcP6oyWg%3D%3D

[doppler]

Being the president of the USA, I would have expected to see a bigger scope.

[RB]

He might have Executive Access to Hubble !

:lol:

[AstralTraveller]

And ... and ... he's holding the frickin eyepiece. People have post fingers doing that!

[doppler]

That's probably the only way he could have a look. The secret service would never let him turn the lights off, mind you the light pollution would have to be bad in the capital city to see much anyway.