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Post-swap Report

Well, huge thanks to Kent, Pete, and Guy for coming out with some great stuff. I hope it was successful for them. There was not as much traffic as I had hoped, but thank you to those who did make it out! Not sure if we will do one of these again. If we do, it will be for fewer hours!

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WHAT

An astronomy gear swap to help raise money for the UMD Observatory. The Observatory will be selling books, lantern slides, glass film plates, and other misc hardware. In addition, we are inviting amateurs in the region to bring in astronomy stuff that they want to swap/sell.

WHERE

UMD Observatory lecture hall and if the weather-permits, outside on the concrete pad east of the hall.

WHEN

Saturday 10 November 2012. Setup for sellers is between 9:30-10am. Buyers should come between 10am-4pm.

WHO

Any person with astronomy gear (hardware, books,...) to sell is invited to participate. There is no cost to participate. When you sell your stuff, the proceeds are yours! However, we are hoping that the extra traffic will generate more sales of some of the UMD Observatory stuff as well and those proceeds will go into the UMD Observatory fund.

And of course, any one looking for astronomy stuff to get, well come on out! Cash is probably preferred choice of payment. The UMD Observatory can also accept checks for its stuff, but no credit cards.

HOW

Sellers should email Elizabeth with your intent to participate and a list highlighting some of your items (and photos if possible!) which will be posted here. If you can, please bring your own small table(s) as we have limited table space.

whats for sale

  • Pete J.
    • Orion Argonaut 6" mak/cas which is actually an Intes MK67 along with a Televue 2" diagonal
  • Kent A.
    • 4" Long Tube refractor and camera tripod with mount attachment
    • Moonlight SCT Focuser
    • 2 - Meade LPI CCD
    • Meade LXD75 Equatorial Mount, Field Tripod, Autostar Controller
    • Meade Field Tripod for 8" Meade LX90
  • Guy B.
    • three used telescopes to sell in order to benefit the ATM group at the CCCC:
      an 8" Coulter Odyssey and two 6" Edmunds motorized equatorial newtonians. The optics on all of them are quite good.
    • will also bring some of our finished, parabolized, aluminized telescope mirrors in a few sizes: 4.25", 6", perhaps 8", perhaps 10".
    • image erector I never used (personal sale)
    • some elliptical secondary diagonal mirror blanks (not polished, not aluminized)
  • UMD Observatory
    • lots of astronomy books
    • lantern slides
    • glass film plates
    • wood tripod legs
    • aluminum pier
    • tv
    • tv cart

Pics of stuff will be posted (via tweeting!) to Elizabeth's facebook page. Elizabeth on twitter is twitter/adastragrl (see a pattern?)...