Telescopes of Octavian Stanescu

My intention is to collect here some informations about telescopes,amateur telescope making and telescope lore from Romania. Most of this information was posted first on http://www.astronomy.ro/forum/

where I am a member and moderator. To do this,I have the agreement of the forum's Administrator and invidualy of every amateur astronomers which will apear here.

My aim is to offer a picture about the status of  Amateur Telescope Making  in my country. I dare to add  my two cents here and there because my travel with the Time Machine was a bit longer and I was  whitness and part here of the development of this fascinating hobby.

 

 

We start with Octavian Stanescu, nickname Tavi, a veteran amateur astronomer and ATM-er ,living in Timisoara.The city of Timisoara always had an active group of amateurs astronomers and is having a special place as an ATM-ing center.

 

This picture,made in 1991, is showing from left to right, Tavi ,next is Doru Dragan ,another veteran amateur astronomer who gained the nickname of The Dragon (you will not have an easy life if you start a polemic with him),the son of Doru and Gavril Beches ,an acomplished  mirror maker .About Gavril, (this is the Romanian equivalent of  Gabriel) ,I will come back latter.

The telescope is an alt-azimuthal Newtonian reflector of 280mm aperture F/5 ,miror made by Tavi.The tube was folding down in two parts to fit in the Moskvitch car in the background.

 

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