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Tuesday, December 22, 2009New telescope curse
It's called the new telescope curse. It goes like this. You wait and hope and dream about having a nice telescope, someday. Lo and behold, the day finally arrives when you have that new telescope in your hot little hands. You unpack the telescope from its box, assemble it, then take some time to admire it. Nest, you check out the telescope eyepieces and other telescope accessories and see how they fit on the telescope. No curse, so far, other than, perhaps, some buyer's remorse for having spent so much money. Not to worry, when your husband sees all the things you will show him in your new telescope, he will forget all about the cost. Right?
Next step is to get that new telescope out under the stars to see what it can do. After all, that's what a telescope is all about. A telescope is a tool and a wonderful tool at that, but like all tools, a telescope is made to be used. It's all about oberving with a telecope. So what's the hold up?Where's the curse? The sky. You need a clear sky to actually use a telescope to do astronomy and, of course, once that new telescope arrives, the clouds roll in ... and the clouds stay ... and they stay ... and they stay. That's the curse of a new telescope and it just seems to work out that way. No, I am not superstitious and I know that it is mostly a case of being too eager, but I've had my new telescope for almost a week, now, and the sky has yet to clear and the forecast is not favorable. Gee, maybe I should be superstitious. Comments: |
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