season's greetings folks...
As a relative newbie to this hobby, I haven't had much opportunity to interact face to face with other astronomers.
I did manage to attend a star party in the fall..
during said event, I heard someone call my XT-8 a
DOBE-(as in GLOBE)-SONIAN
[I always thought it was a DOB-(as in BLOB)-SONIAN]
and, I heard Televue's top of the line eyepiece called a NAG-LER (as in HAG) rather than NA(Y)GLER that I had always read it as.
here are some other equipment-related names I'm not sure of the pronunciation of...
PLOSSL (like fossil?)
ZEISS (like nice?)
RADIAN (long 1st A or short 1st A?)
any phonics help would be appreciated.
As a relative newbie to this hobby, I haven't had much opportunity to interact face to face with other astronomers.
I did manage to attend a star party in the fall..
during said event, I heard someone call my XT-8 a
DOBE-(as in GLOBE)-SONIAN
[I always thought it was a DOB-(as in BLOB)-SONIAN]
and, I heard Televue's top of the line eyepiece called a NAG-LER (as in HAG) rather than NA(Y)GLER that I had always read it as.
here are some other equipment-related names I'm not sure of the pronunciation of...
PLOSSL (like fossil?)
ZEISS (like nice?)
RADIAN (long 1st A or short 1st A?)
any phonics help would be appreciated.
