New Toy

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I visited the friendly folk at Sirius Optics today and bought myself a 20mW Laser Pointer.
What fun!!
Hope the clouds nick off so I can play with it tonight.

[ving (David)]

sweet!!! dont point that thing here tho

[ving (David)]

just a quick question, a friend of mine has one of those red lasers and it serves pretty much as a cat toy. can you use a 20mw green laser the same or is it likey to send the poor kitty blind if you acidently zap it in teh eyes?

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Kitty would need a seeing eye mouse, or a white cane afterwards.
This thing nearly blinds me when reflected off white paper.

[ving (David)]

bugger, that means i cant convince cheryl we need one for the cats!

have fun with your new toy jeanette. are you going to mount it to your scope?

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

No, I'll just use it hand held. Yer not supposed to use it for more than a minute at a time cause you'll wreck the laser.
Living under a flight path will make it interesting as well.

[iceman (Mike)]

It'll be fun to play with even with clouds! Get out there and shoot a hole through them

[acropolite (Phil)]

Great purchase jjj, green lasers are a lot of fun, they also make an excellent finder when mounted on your dob.

Originally Posted by ving

just a quick question, a friend of mine has one of those red lasers and it serves pretty much as a cat toy

They work equally well as a dog toy, k9's just love chasing that red dot.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

great more light pollution

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Cool Jeanette.

Clouds are fun with a green laser. It makes them glow green!