A Winning Telescope

摘要

The 2013 ASP conference in San Jose was the first meeting I’d ever been to, and I normally don’t buy raffle tickets. However, this time was different for some reason — I had really enjoyed the meeting, wanted to support the ASP, and the telescope (Explore Scientific’s AR127 Air-Spaced Doublet with Twilight I Alt-Azimuth Mount) looked quite beautiful. So, I figured I’d buy a few raffle tickets, even though I had little hope of actually winning. You can imagine my amazement when I found out this telescope was soon to be mine! I was in dire need of a good telescope (my old one just wasn’t cutting it anymore), so this was perfect!