Just sharing a friendly (scary) scope story...I have the most wonderful and playful dog in the world (IMHO), and she has a an old stuffed animal she loves to play with...its a softball sized hedgehog (affectionatly known as Hedgehog), and she just love to throw it across the room and chase after it. We had guests over for the holidays, and I was showing them my mostly completed 8" truss tube dob project. I set it up in the living room, and gave them the run down on how it works. It was like it happened in slow motion. As I was talking with them, the slobbery Hedgehog came flying towards the scope. An inch in either direction, it would have hit one of the truss poles. Another fraction of a second longer, and I could have deflected its flight path away. But it landed right on the primary mirror. 8O For some reason the guests could not understand the shock and horror I was going through. 
Now my primary has dried dog slobber all over it. It looks like the next thing I need to design for the project is a mirror box lid. Oh well, life goes on, right? :S
ER
Now my primary has dried dog slobber all over it. It looks like the next thing I need to design for the project is a mirror box lid. Oh well, life goes on, right? :S ER
