OUR EYES TO OUR SKY! Debbie I will give you the stars

Debbie actually gave me a star for Christmas Clinton G Whitman near the big dipper

CAVEMAN & CAVEGIRL WELCOMES YOU THE SITE KNOW TO THOUSANDS AS CAVESTAR******

Hello to all our friends and anyone who enters our astronomy site! After a few years of raising kids and working allot I have gotten back into astronomy with my wife Debbie. My first scope was the Tasco 60mm Alt az mount Around 1967 -68 This scope went everywhere with me and was completely worn out by the time I was 16 years old. At 18 found a broken and smashed 4" reflector another Tasco and restored it. I had this well into my 20s Mostly studying the planets and the moon with my boys, then I gave it to a missionary friend who was going to africa and I assume the scope is still there. During my 30s and early 40s I have had a chance to view with friends scopes in Oceanside where I lived for 15 years but did not have the money for the type of scopes I wanted and could not bring myself to spend this much. Well I moved to LA and have jumped back in with both feet! Our youngest son is 20 years old and going to collage and Debbie is a middle school teacher in the valley. About 3 years ago we started with the following telescopeThe Somewhat wayward Meade LX200GPS 2005 and a half We decided that a more stable larger light bucket was going to make a big difference. So for a Great price for the supplied equipment Carlos, Daniel & Ferha At Woodland hills Telescope Hooked us up with the LX200 gps. I brought it home and proceeded to go thru the I cant get the AUTOSTAR to upgrade syndrome, And the dam it the DEC gears are Plastic and the Telescope hangs on AUTOSTAR INITILIZING now what do i do! So Ferha Got meade to send the New set of 4 bright shiny brass gears. And I read about how to install them forever and put them in. Smooth as silk and the tracing was great but the RA PEC kept up the error messages. So Woodland Hills Telescope Being a Great Store had it Sent to meade for a attitude adjustment. Wow what an attitude adjustment, Meade really set the scope up perfect it is tracking great and the go to hasn't missed yet. What a wonder of engineering this scope is, just set it up, turn it on and off it goes!!

First Light From the GPS 10" and the Cannon DR XT ! now were having fun yet!! There are very long learning curves in the field of Astro photography So as I learn the pictures should get better.

There is something I want to comment on. I see people on Astromart saying " I am selling this because the light pollution is to bad to see where i live" Dorks All these pictures so far have been taken from my house in Van Nuys you know the people in LA call it the valley. most nights the sky stays blue... We will overcome all adversity.. The American way. We all have to drive at least 1.5 hours for a dark sky. And when Debbie and I get up to Mt. pinos there is so much to see no time for pictures...

Time for a new look and better way to see! 2006-07

An update We have been going at this for the past year and am getting things worked out!!

Tak 130-f with all the trims. Losmandy G-11 with a Gemini system.

WO zenith star 80 top mounted. Also serves as our, were going to the big island travel scope and is a great scope with wonderfull optics.

My sweety Debbie who loves mount Pinos and freezing!!

And the Taks first light August 06, We were the only ones up there (full moon) so we spent all night letting the boy scouts look at jupiter and the moon. There were like 20 Cub Scouts and two scout masters. We had a great time!

The marked improvement in our pictures is due mostly to the scope, mount and software, At this time the rebel is modified by me I took out the IR filter and use this camera only for astrophotograghy....Clint

Debbie an I were Married on the 21 of October...So off we go to Hawaii and the rest of our lives together... We are happy and had a wonderful wedding weekend..

Proof !! More to come on the main page.

OLD / NEW

The Blue tube (SOLD)

Restoration of a 1976 Coulter Oddesy

Clean mirror but the tube was beat until I fixed it, Wondered what a little bon do and paint would do to it so i found out! Now it looks better than new. Wonderful 1976 13.1 F4.5 Pyrex and it has the original finder but I made it a 90 degree with part of an old meade finder eyepiece. This scope sees the light!! Thanks Lindey of Simi Valley original owner.

Cave Astrola 10" F5 Another Restoration Project. (SOLD)

This one is not as bad. I just picked this up form a great guy and his wife. Bill & Kathy Llano in Brea, CA. Bill picked this up from Tom Cave in 1980 after grinding his own mirror and giving it to Tom to put in this scope, Well after having the scope for a while and loving the optics he was really happy with his work, grinding his own mirror. After a while the mirror got dusty he went to clean it and realized this was a cave mirror he Called Tom and asked where his mirror was Tom Messed up and put Bills mirror in a scope going to australia. Ouch! But Bill loved the optics and is like I said a great guy! So if your in Australia and have a 10" Cave you may have a Llano one of a kind mirror!!!

As far as this scope We just got back from Bills and I thru it together, Clear cold night. Wow now i know why people want these. M42 i could see reds and blues and i am in Van nuys, it rivals the Tak 130 in contrast, and i didn't collimate it yet. This ones the kind you wish you had. Rich in Seakonk Mass. Purchased this scope after some work was put into it. He has completly restored it and it is now a prize feature is his obsevatory!!

THE LEGENED OF THE VIEWING CAVE

1965 F8 10" Tom Cave, Astrola Telescope. I think these scopes are twice as good as the new ones as far as Bad to the bone USA design and Americana. This photo was Taken in 1965 in Long Island New York by the Original 16 year old owner Jim who I purchased the scope from. (Click on the photo for the restoration page.)

This scope is now completely restored and is a wonderful telescope. John Pons and Ed Zucardi two of LAs best known telescope men have viewed the stars and Jupiter with this scope and told me that it is a Freak mirror! One in a million with a perfect figure. John who was friends with Tom Cave and Alika Herring said It is one of the best figured 10" Mirrors he has ever seen! After the many hours of work restoring this telescope this review by two of the most experienced astronomers in the US made your humble author a very happy Telescope man!!!

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