If you could share your scope with anyone in history.....

[cotterless45]

If it were possible to let anyone from the past have use of your scope , who would you choose ?

I'd probably go for Leonardo da Vinci , as it would probably blow his socks off and it's a pretty predictable lazy answer,

Nick.

[Mav359]

All the refs of the premier league!!!

[rowan46]

I'd let nelson borrow my binoculars he might have been able to see those ships then

[Moonshane]

I think Carl Sagan. He's so enthusiastic.

[Qualia]

Imagine the transformation of the Occidental world and just how different would be its history, its institutions, religions and science if some 2,500 years ago Plato and Aristotle had had a decent telescope?

[themos]

Eratosthenes, so that he could become Alpha.

[Pig]

? I had to think about it for to long

[Steve Ward]

Me .... forty years ago ....   

[Luke]

Sir Patrick Moore for a bit of lunar observing. Maybe he could bring an astronaut with him, as one does.

[estwing]

with someone who's in charge of getting rid of this LP

[Pig]

Felicity Kendal or Richard Feynman, both for very different reasons

[ronin]

Messier, that way he may have realised that those odd fuzzy things were not really worth ignoring.

Ironically I have no idea if he actually identified any new comets. But is there anyone else so well known globally after so long for a list of things not to bother with?

[stevepeverall]

Galileo. I don't think it's right that anyone should walk around thinking that saturn has ears.

[Andy_E]

Hmmm, tough one. I think it would have to be the great Sir David Attenborough... I'm sure he'd be interested and it would be nice to think I could teach him something for a change!

Great thread by the way.

Andy

[Peter Drew]

Cleopatra. Well it's bound to be cloudy at some time. 

[Astro Imp]

This is one of the hardest fantasy threads to answer, especially as all the obvious candidates have already been mentioned.

 I think it would be interesting to do a spot of Luna watching with one of the astronauts who had set foot there and hear there take as you walk in their footsteps , so to speak.

[LukeSkywatcher]

He is not dead yet but i'l love to let Karl Pilkington have a look through my scope. He'd probably pass out.

[Velvet]

Ptolemy

perhaps then he could have seen the error of his ways

[DaveGarland]

Me as a kid because I'd have loved it

Actually though it might not be a good idea with some of those historical figures because it could end up changing history in a way you may not like. For instance it could somehow give rise to an empire that murdered a distant relative so you may never exist!

Of course then you couldn't show someone your scope and change history... So you'd be alive after all.... Oh enough!

[laowho]

John Dobson...then there'd be a lot more binocular telescopes and a lot less bad information about the real gains and the ease of making and using them.

[Welrod50]

Isaac Newton.

He could get a right ego boost knowing he was responsible for the legacy of the Newtonian, and he could have a look through a decent EP with quality mirrors to inspire him that bit more.

[LeeB]

How about McVitie and Price , just to say well done on the Jaffa cake front. 

[faulksy]

mine would be michelle Pfeiffer in the cat woman outfit, wont matter if it is cloudy then

[Mav359]

Galileo, surely...

He got us started and we might be further ahead if he'd had better equipment

[jason.p]

My Dad.

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