Hello all I recently purchased a used Burgess 91mm triplet from Amart and recently joined this group. I am very impresed with this telescope's performance....
Hi, Jerry- Welcome to the group! Obvious, looking through your other pictures/galleries you are both an experienced observor and photographer... nice pic's!...
Welcome to the "club", Jerry. Let me tell you this (as you'll find out later anyway). Bill Burgess has completely re-defined the definition of the word...
Welcome to the "club", Jerry. Let me tell you this (as you'll find out later anyway). Bill Burgess has completely re-defined the definition of the word...
I received a CED2 today and felt motivated to share my experience using it should you be waiting for someones evaluation. First test object was Venus in my...
... an orthoscopic, planetary specific EP, using mathematical formula's that all other optical experts and makers said was NOT POSSIBLE. [SNIP] I first met...
If all you said was true, Alan, than why didn't anyone produce what amounts to his design until 3 short years ago, hmm? There was certainly the market for it....
The last I heard, they were on the way. dar Has anyone heard when the 12mm plossls were to ship. It has been quite a while. bc [Non-text portions of this...
Alan You are absolutely WRONG about Tom's Genius. I have in my hand an APO with all normal partial despersion glass. (3 elements) Please tell me any designer...
Hey Guys The delay in several products is caused by the Spring Festival. China does not have any one day Holidays like we have in the US an added to this the...
Bill, Tom showed this at NEAF some years ago, so I have a very simple question for you. Where are the production versions? Making them seems like a very...
Alan What Tom has done is impossible for all other designers through out history.?I can show you quotes from all Phd optical designers and any other noted...
... Bill, I thought it was a triplet, or do you mean it is a triplet using only two normal glasses? Some of the earliest apochromats used a composite flint of...
... It has been done before and it doesn't sound like you are breaking new ground. The basic idea of using a negative lens to compensate for the field...
Does that mean that the 100 mile per gallon carbs never existed? Oh darn! So far, Bill has delivered on every claim that he has made over the years. The 1278...
What was it that all of the "EXPERTS" said about the Wright Brothers! That it was a physical impossibility to make a heavier than air machine that would fly? ...
Jesus, you don't get it, do you? You never know when to stop. Let it go, Alan. You're a two-legged dog trying to swim across the Mississippi at this point....
Yes Alan, please. IF you HAVE to try to denigrate Bill, PLEASE do it offline and in a private email. I for one, don't like the attacks against him. ... ...
Oh, and how convenient of you to overlook MY points, as if they were never spoken. Address those first, then prattle on and continue to try and convince Bill...
Bill- Perhaps a Group-block might be in this man's future?.....BR ... From: burgoptics@... <burgoptics@...> Subject: Re: [BurgessRefractors] Perception...
... Brothers! That it was a physical impossibility to make a heavier than air machine that would fly? ... to the Moon, EVER! ... fields" said that trains...
... Rude and classless to use someone's wife in a personal insult. Your responses to Alan have been way over the top. Look up Cognitive Dissonance, or as the...
Oh, and how convenient of you to overlook MY points, as if they were never spoken. Address those first, then prattle on and continue to try and convince Bill...
Lets all take a deep breath. Remember that this thread started with a new guy introducing himself to the group. We all own some Burgess products and we all...
This whole thing sounds like children arguing,,,,, Wes ... From: Bill Reynolds To: BurgessRefractors@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 3:56 AM ...
Lets all take a deep breath. Remember that this thread started with a new guy introducing himself to the group. We all own some Burgess products and we all...