Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Jim, it's hard to get rid of things like these - anything mechanical and sentimental basically. I first was entranced by Bayko bricks and then a Meccano set, both now well gone, but I still have a wonderful Curta calculator, and most of my mechanical cameras. Douglas On 22/08/2017 04:09, Jim Nichols wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > A beautiful instrument, and amazing penmanship. Thanks for the story. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > On 8/21/2017 8:36 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: >> Nice to see the eclipse images from people. To be honest, I wouldn't >> have even tried to take any images as the spectacle of totality would >> probably have blown my mind. >> >> We had a very minor (4%) eclipse over here in Ireland at 8.00pm, and >> beforehand I started to make a pinhole projector out of a couple of >> pieces of stiff paper. This was a bit hit and miss. Then I >> remembered something, and went hunting for it. Having successfully >> located the solution, I watched the paltry eclipse through my Dad's >> 130 year old sextant which has pretty powerful colour filters. >> >> 23 years after my Dad died, it was nice to resurrect his sextant to >> see the moon bite. Instead of eclipse images, here's a couple of his >> sextant and his 2nd Mate's ticket taken with my iPhone. His 1st >> Mate's ticket is missing, and I understand from my mother that he >> either had got a his Master's ticket or else was studying for it.. >> >> Apparently, his insistence to me, when I had issues with my teachers, >> that he had been an exemplary school pupil turned out to be bigly >> fake news. My uncle said he had been a difficult rebellious >> individual, and that he had been expelled from two schools. In >> desperation, his father had sent him away to sea as a merchant ship's >> cadet with the Reardon Smith line based out of Cardiff. After >> circling the world a number of times over seven years, sanity >> prevailed, and he returned home to Cork, studied for his >> matriculation, and having got that, went to University College Cork >> on a scholarship where he got his degree. The only sailing he did >> later was with me and my brothers. >> >> Sextant by T.L. Ainsley of South Shields, England from the 1880s. >> iPhone 5S. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Sextant.jpg.html >> >> Certificate of Competency for Second Mate from 1930. iPhone 5S. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Second+Mate+Cert.jpg.html >> >> Douglas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information