Telescopes in Movies

[Wookie (Ryan)]

While watching Episode 4 of The Mysterious Benedict Society on Disney Plus with the family, there was a scene where a Newtonian Reflector was used to observe a distant island.

This show is about intelligent/gifted/lateral thinking children and I thought it was ironic that the cast used the telescope the wrong way around. They would have been looking directly at the trees behind them.

See image attached.

I couldn't control my laughter.

Has anyone else seen incorrect usage of telescopes in movies/tv shows?

[multiweb (Marc)]

This one.

[N1 (Mirko)]

Originally Posted by Wookie

I couldn't control my laughter.

Don't laugh, that's a Alex and Wavy tryin' out the new Intes Nasmyth Mak. It can do 10,000x on the Moon when it's below the horizon

[fornax (Phil)]

In the film Roxanne, with Steve Martin. Daryl Hannah plays an astonomer and they move a reflector up a set of stairs ... with ... the ... scope ... still ... attached ... to ... the ... mount ... and ... the ... tripod.

Unbelievable

[raymo]

The look on the would be operator's face seems to show him thinking
"what the heck do I do with this thing?"
raymo

[Stonius (Markus)]

Originally Posted by fornax

In the film Roxanne, with Steve Martin. Daryl Hannah plays an astonomer and they move a reflector up a set of stairs ... with ... the ... scope ... still ... attached ... to ... the ... mount ... and ... the ... tripod.

Unbelievable

My understanding is that career astronomers rarely look through telescopes.

[blink138 (Pat)]

lol reminds me of this classic ..........

[Gary47 (Gary)]

Thundeball , Sean Connery uses a Meade LX200 (Looked like a 14 or 16 inch) to perv on Claudine Auger doing an exercise routine aboard the villains yacht.
My recollection is that he twiddles the altitude adjustment to get focus.
Good bit of product placement.

[astronut (John)]

Little Caesar's Pizza.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbTk6N5kwM

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

I want Lara Croft's Observatory

[anthony2302749]

Star Trek: First Contact

Meade LX200 with some type of truss tube. Also can clearly read Meade on the telescope.

[DarkArts]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

I want Lara Croft's Observatory

Damn the observatory; I want Lara Croft!

[billdan (Bill)]

This is the telescope that was in the Supernatural TV series. It looks like a classic Cassagrain.

[DarkArts]

In Big Bang Theory, there's a Celestron Nexstar 8SE that pops up a few times, mostly pointed out a closed window, interior lights still on, so all manner of ambient light and reflections - they can't have seen much.

[billdan (Bill)]

Originally Posted by DarkArts

In Big Bang Theory, there's a Celestron Nexstar 8SE that pops up a few times, mostly pointed out a closed window, interior lights still on, so all manner of ambient light and reflections - they can't have seen much.

In one of the episodes they take the telescope up to the roof and use it.

In another episode they take it out to the desert but some girl guides gave them hash cookies to eat and they never got to use it. To busy laughing their heads off.