Astronomers
of
Verde Valley
            
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Many of our
club member scopes are hand crafted by the owners. This produces
a telescope of high quality and better optics that can be found
in "commercial" telescopes. |
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Karen, the First
Lady of the Club, looks through her 6 inch reflector made by the
late optician Pierre Schwar. J D's 11 incher is in the
background. |
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Fred (standing)
has a serious discussion with Milt (seated) on the resolution of
his 14 inch telescope. |
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The Club President
JD with his 11 inch GPS computerized Goto. |
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Milt with his huge
TEC refractor. |
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Jim's waiting for
darkness with his hand crafted scope, "Scrappy". This is a 10
inch reflector he built from spare parts for less than $50. |
At our Two
Trees Observing site, everyone is waiting patiently for
darkness as the Messier Marathon is ready to start.
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Jim again with
his "Hale-Bopp" telescope. Jim hand crafted this 17 inch
telescope and it discovered the now famous Hale-Bopp Comet.
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Milt with his
galaxy hunting Vixen, 10 inch reflector.
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This is the
"Laura" scope, hand crafted by Doug (standing). He
originally built the scope for Laura Stoiber who
unfortunately passed away not long after the scope was
finished. Her family donated the scope to the club as per
Laura's wishes.
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