"202 New"

That's how many messages were posted since I last checked in yesterday afternoon.

So, things heat up a bit, did they?

By the way, I like refractors. They do this, that and the other. Newts are okay, but they don't reflect my biases.

"The unexamined SCT is not worth pointing." --Corrector Plato

(I know this won't lighten up anything, but c'mon!)

All together now:

Oh say can you see
Through an air-spaced triplet
The entire damn Veil
Or a nebulous fuzzy

Through a fourteen inch Dob
The Pleiades look cool
But just try to resolve
Cassini with a short-tube

And the wait makes you frown
As the Cat-thing cools down
Just one little bump
And you'll curse out your go-to

So sell that tiny apo
And get one of these truss beasts
You'll need a bigger truck
But you'll see Hadley's Rille