Astronomy "Quotes"

(funny e-mail)


NEW MEGA WIDE-ANGLE EYEPIECE!!!

From: "David W. Knisely" dk84538@navix.net
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 23:18:00 -0800

>>>>>> Introducing the All-New Revolutionary <<<<<<

MEGA WIDE-ANGLE
AVERTING EYEPIECE


See Detail Like Never Before!

Our Patented 14 element design automatically directs 75% of the image to your Peripheral Vision!

250 DEGREE Apparent Field!!   __________          Threaded for standard
Makes you feel like you're   /          |------|  1.25" filters. 
looking behind your back!   |   181mm   |      |  BUY NOW and receive, free
                            |    MWF    |      |  of charge, our all-new
Use it in your finderscope   \__________|------|  AVERTED IMAGINATION FILTER!
and see the ENTIRE SKY!!                         (Please specify which object)
                                                 (you would like to imagine)
                                                 (you are seeing.)

ENORMOUS 2000mm Eye Relief! Lets you observe while seated comfortably in your lawn chair 7 FEET AWAY FROM YOUR SCOPE!

SUPERB COLOR CORRECTION (previously available only in 50mm department-store telescopes). Brings out colors that don't even show up in photographs!

>>>>> ** ONLY $19.95 OBO ** <<<<<
(plus $250 shipping and handling fee)


From ASTRO MAN by Dave Scherping, modified (slighlty) by Dave Knisely
in the October 1996 issue of THE PRAIRIE ASTRONOMER