In a desperate bid to remember my younger days I went to Mt.Stromlo today and spent some quality time with Tim Wetherell's beautiful Oddie II Refractor, it was like stepping back to the late 70s when I first spent some time with the original Oddie.
I stood there with my Nikon like a kid in a candy store, trying to work out how it would fit into the back of my BMW 635CSi, alas it was never going to happen so I took a lot of photographs instead.
Then I felt that pull to the dark side, merely admiring Tim's craft was not enough so I carefully removed the Dust cap and placed it quietly down and walked the metres to the focuser and although it could only see trees on a faraway hill, the feeling was pure magic.
I replaced the cap as carefully as I could and oriented it so the writing was now the correct way up and my day was complete.
Had to tell someone .............. but just keep it between us ........OK
