scope naming?

[ving (David)]

I happen toknow that alot of you name your scopes.
houghy has sugested in another thread tha i need to name mine with its new mount and power supply...

sugestions please

[merlin8r]

Hi Ving,
I can't help you, but I can relate. I have been trying to think up a name for my 10" LX200R when it arrives. I even put out the challenge to my wife, who is a high school Geography teacher. She put forward the competition to a couple of her classes to come up with a good name. I thought 60 or so teenage girls would come up with at least ONE good name, but alas they failed. They came up with things like "Moonie" and "Twinkle"
So to my mind, I'm leaning towards something from the Manga cartoons, either a suitable character name if I can find one, or I will name it the Argo from my fave toon when I was 15, Star Blazers.

Clear skies and good luck (it's really hard),
Shane

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

() The "Sky Poker"?

[ving (David)]

i am not naming it moonie or twinkie!!!

sky poker?

[rogerg (Roger)]

Like Shane, I can't help but can relate. I've been trying to think up a name for my observatory for the last 4 years. My partner rekons it should be called "The Birdbath" because it has a flat section of roof that pools water in winter. Needless to say I haven't gone with her suggestion! Still hunting. I was thinking something aboriginal that means something in terms of astronomy, but unfrotunately it seems the culture of aboriginals is so nearly lost I have found it extremely hard to find anyone or anything telling giving me ideas in that direction.

Anyway.. can't help Ving... especially not having got to know your scope

Roger.

[ving (David)]

maybe i need to work out its personality first?

I mean the ota is about 2 now but the mount is brand new (not even out of the box yet!

[rogerg (Roger)]

If you wait to work out it's personality Ving, make sure you wait at least 6 months.... because if it's like any telescope mount I've owned, naming it in the first 6 months might result in a name that you can never type in a forum like this.... (containing a few too many ... bad words... )

[ving (David)]

hmm... point taken
still up for suggestions tho

[h0ughy (David)]

Ving call it Angelina, you know what Cheryl will do if you say you've just been playing with Angelina and playing with her bits...... ...............you could then be adopted to madonna and then you `could say when you get the new mount angelina has been.. oh wont go there

[h0ughy (David)]

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[avandonk]

I call mine easy lifted. heavier and UG. I call the table with two laptops *&!!

Bert

[ving (David)]

thats great houghy... but she aint goto and i'd get kicked out if i called it heather


thats quite a mouthfull bert!

[xelasnave]

crazy calf?
alex

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Astrid

[mick pinner]

Stargrazer. bovine reference intended.

[jase (Jason)]

I like to concept of personalising a scope with a name, but I fear I'll get too attached to it. I generally keep things simple. In my case, I call a C11 a C11 (a spade a spade) Its short and sweet, describing what it is. I guess I could use some imagination. Using numbers in the name always sound cool and perhaps geeky. Perhaps R2D2, 3CPO, Fortune500 or something.

[mickoking]

I am a pretty dull geezer. None of my scopes have names.

[spacezebra (Petra)]

My LB is "Dennis" and the 20" that Anna and I are building will be "Oscar".

Cheers Petra

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by jase

I like to concept of personalising a scope with a name, but I fear I'll get too attached to it. I generally keep things simple. In my case, I call a C11 a C11 (a spade a spade) Its short and sweet, describing what it is. I

Same here Jase. I call the 12 inch the "12", the 8 inch the "8", the 3 inch the "3", the ETX the "ETX" and for something out of the box, I call the 80mm refractor the "80".

I call my cars what their manufacturer called them too.

I guess I've never followed the Aussie habit of nicknaming anything. I was taught to call people by their proper name out of respect for them.

On the flip side, plenty of people have come up with their own name for me....

[Rodstar (Rod)]

I am still trying to think of a name for my new scope, so I would appreciate any suggestions, too.

Bearing in mind the whole phallic inference associated with large telescopes, my wife has suggested I call my scope, "Richard". What troubles me is the size of the opening (aperture) that Richard will have. Not very masculine at all, if you catch my drift.....???

I had thought of naming it after a relative, such as my late grandmother Olive. Given comments above about aperture, I am not sure whether that is any less disturbing...