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Originally Posted by pete_pumpkin
I was watching a long youtube video showing John Dobson building telescopes and though for a moment how much different things are now for amateur astronomers. Back then the telescopes did look amateur compared to what's available with the resources we have today. Lots of emphasis on grinding your own mirror, carpentry for making the tubes out of plywood etc Simple slide the eyepiece into a tube ie no focusers as we know it now.
I can't help but feel that we are spoilt nowadays with all that's available and that the hobby may have been more rewarding back then.
I'd like to know what people's experiences are and whether they've ever built a scope themselves?
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I always laugh when I hear people saying "things were better in the good old days", no they never were, film instead of instant rubbish optics, swapping five different films mid roll for different occasions, having to carry 100, 200, 400, 800 iso negative and positive as opposed to just the flick of a switch, vars that you hoped would start in winter as opposed to taking for granted they will now, air con, rubbish mounts.
There were no good old days.
I speak from experience and being there, sorry