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Old 09-03-2011, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by multiweb View Post
The Basalt Ridge Observatory sounds like the Hinchinbrook Observatory (3 countersunk bricks in the grass). Let's call them 'mobile observatories'.
If I shorten mobile observatories to "mob", my viewing area becomes the Basalt Ridge Mob. Sounds more like a spaghetti western!!

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Originally Posted by mental4astro View Post
Remind the missus of Stonehendge. Its plinths seem random, but they are very deliberate and precisly located mathematical and navigational devices.
Thanks for the advice... my wife is now worried that I'll be raising big stones in the yard, lighting fires and dancing naked around them to the intoxicating beat of drums!!! However, I believe this is now the best time to hit her with the 16" SCT purchase...

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Mario
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