Hello Friend,

These commandments were s not inscribed in some rock, on top of a mountain.

         As I saw yet another horrible act committed to yet another telescope this week, I decided
I had better write the Five commandments of owning a telescope.

Here they are:

1) Do not muck around with the secondary mirror, or collimation if you do not have the foggiest
    idea about what you are doing. There are books on the subject, and stuff on the internet as well.

2)  Just because there are knobs that you can rotate and turn at the bottom of your telescope tube
or elsewhere, does not mean you should.

3) If you decide to take your electronics apart and repair them, when you have not a clue, then expect
    to pay more to have it repaired, when our technician has to fix it. 

4) When you take eyepieces apart,  to clean them because you saw a speck of dust (or think you did)
     you can bet there is more than one optical element in there. Sometimes one might fall out, and whoopsy
   where does it go? Really bad when it is something like an expensive high quality eyepiece!

5) Your telescope or eyepiece  dews up.  You do not clean it with your shirtsleeve , or kleenex, and damage  putting fine scratches
   on the coatings. 

Yes, there are actually more commandments.  I have listed only five here for now.

  Clear Skies,

Ray Khan

PS Basically, treat you telescope as you would treat your partner, spouse, wife or girlfriend. With tender loving care.

PPS Kudos to those of you who do treat your instruments with care. That says much about you.Save as Draft