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I am a 65 year old former attorney by trade and have been observing for the past 20+ years. During that time I have had the opportunity to use a number of different scopes and even built a nice 12.5 inch Dobsonian reflector which gave me years of p…
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I am a 65 year old former attorney by trade and have been observing for the past 20+ years. During that time I have had the opportunity to use a number of different scopes and even built a nice 12.5 inch Dobsonian reflector which gave me years of pleasant nights . If you ignore the wobbly 2 inch dime store scope I owned as a kid, I started while on assignment in Norway with a Meade LX10 that I bought on a trip to London. I graduated to an LX90 while working in London and then built my dob when I returned to Houston in 2004.
I started imaging in Houston (actually at the Houston Astronomical Society’s dark sky site about 90 miles west of Houston) in early 2011 and then, beginning mid-2012, imaged and observed from a mountain in Oman (Jebel Shams, about a 4.5 hour drive from my home in Dubai where I was on assignment). Jebel Shams offered reasonably dark skies and cool, dry nights, even in the summer, both of which are sadly lacking in Dubai. As an example, at my preferred location about 2000M up, the summer temps are a comfortable and dry 20C (68F) compared to Dubai nighttime temps above 35C (>95F) with humidity in the 80 to 90% range. In April 2014 I moved back to the US and started imaging again from the HAS site in August 2014 after my shipment with my equipment arrived from the Middle East. In 2016 I advanced to a Planewave 17” CDK at New Mexico Skies.
In 2021 I decided to end my time at New Mexico Skies and return to local imaging. I am now getting set up with my old favorite, a Takahashi e130D and will be using CMOS for the first time.
http://www.jimmorse-astronomy.com
Retired
Reading, teaching myself science, woodworking, carpentry
