does your telescope have a name?

[mark81]

Hi All,

so the other day I came across a blog and the author casually mentioned that he had named his telescope. This made me laugh a little. I then remembered that I had named my first car, people name boats and many other things besides....

so my question is, does your scope have a name? And if so, would you share it with us?

I asked the wife to choose a name and she came up with Apollo which I thought was a bit of a cliche but I didn't want to say that so I added a 4000 at the end just for fun. Apollo 4000.

[xvariablestarx]

I think of my Dobsonian as "Big Bertha", because it looks somewhat like a piece of artillery, and I guess my Orion Goscope would be "Little Red", because its little and ....red.

[xtreemchaos]

my AR127L Is called Old faithfull. my 200p is called pea, my ed80 is Ed and my starwave 102 Solly. ive others but where not on talking terms .. clear skys, charl.

[Timebandit]

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. I have named mine.

The Beast and Diddy, care to guess which one is which  ? ? 

 

 

 

[Doc]

I have named my homemade mounts as "DocMount" and "RocketMount"

 

[Saganite]

My beautiful telescope, 5" f15 was named Andromeda ( means Ruler of Men ) by her previous owner and I have kept it, because like my first view of the scope, I liked it instantly.

I also have a 12" Dob, given the name Freeda by the same person, without my permission.

[Saganite]

7 minutes ago, Timebandit said:

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. I have named mine.

The Beast and Diddy, care to guess which one is which  ? ? 

 

 

 

Snap !

Meet Freeda the.......DOB

[mikeDnight]

TAKY. (FS 152)

 

Also TAKY. (FS 128)

 

And yet again, TAKY! (FC 100DC)

[JeremyS]

3 hours ago, mark81 said:

so my question is, does your scope have a name?

No

[Alien 13]

My WO ZS71 is called Eric, the Mak is called Eric...

Alan

[MarsG76]

7 hours ago, Timebandit said:

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. I have named mine.

The Beast and Diddy, care to guess which one is which  ? ? 

 

 

 

The little one the beast.... like calling a Rottweiler "tiny"

 

[MarsG76]

I didn't name my scope, but I call the whole observatory the LAB. It looks like a little barn so "Little Astro Barn".

 

[paulastro]

I've called all my scopes various names for as long as I can remember, particularly when I trip over them or the observing session isn't going well - though I always make up and apologise to them afterwards.

Most of the time I call my Astro-Tech 102ED 'Techy' and the SW 180 Mak 'Big Mak'.

[DaveS]

Nothing that would be repeatable here.

[ChrisEll]

Scopey McScopeFace?

[mikeDnight]

17 hours ago, JeremyS said:

No

I've an idea Jeremy! You could call your FS102 "Taky." Somehow they seem to suit it! You could also call your Celestron "Schmidtty." You can see I've put a lot of thought into this before posting.  Be thankful you don't have a Meade! 

[JeremyS]

1 minute ago, mikeDnight said:

I've an idea Jeremy! You could call your FS102 "Taky." Somehow they seem to suit it! You could also call your Celestron "Schmidtty." You can see I've put a lot of thought into this before posting.  Be thankful you don't have a Meade! 

I see where you are going with this Mike ( or is it Mikey?). :-)

[25585]

12 inch 300P Dob is "Bertha"

10 inch Bresser dob is "Bress"

120 Equinox is "Noxy"

100 Equinox is "Ebony"

Tele Vue Genesis is that.

C8 is "Tango"

And my Takahashi is "Candy" ?

[Alfian]

My scopes currently do not have names, but if they did I think they would be Cirrus, Cumulus and Nimbus, because when I its looking good for a session and I start ....well you can figure the rest.

[Whistlin Bob]

My 14 inch dob is called Henrietta. The other 2 don't have names. I worry they'll be jealous.

[F15Rules]

23 hours ago, mikeDnight said:

TAKY. (FS 152)

 

Also TAKY. (FS 128)

 

And yet again, TAKY! (FC 100DC)

So it's official, Mike..Clamshells are, in fact, "Taky"!!!

Dave

[Dave Lloyd]

Iggle biggle (not piggle) and the star cannon. 

[paulastro]

Blimey, there's people stranger than me out there! 

[impactcrater]

N. But Galileo would be good

[adyj1]

On 4/23/2018 at 22:09, Alien 13 said:

My WO ZS71 is called Eric, the Mak is called Eric...

Alan

Are all your scopes called Eric? ? (you don't want to be tarred with the epithet 'loony', now, do you?)