[Chaos-l] Time for a club loaner scope?

[walter fowler]

I'll bet that someone in the club has a small scope that they would be
willing to donate for this purpose.  Peter Smith has talked about donating a
small equitorial mount that could be used with a refractor and I'm sure that
someone has a small Dob that has been neglected ever since they got their
bigger Dob.  I used to have old telescopes but I gave them all away!  Let
Jon know if you prefer to be an anonymous donor (but I'll bet that there is
a tax write-off in it for you!).  Walter

On 8/13/06, Jon <joncst at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi all.  Several times over the last month i've heard people ask if CHAOS
> has a loaner scope people could check out.  I know it's been discussed in
> the past as well.  The biggest reason i've heard raised against it was
> logistics: who'd be in charge of it, where would it live when it wasn't in
> use, and so on.  If we got a reasonably compact scope, i'd be willing to
> host it.  Or, hosting it could become one of the duties of the
> Vice-President or Secretary. Or again, it could be come a volunteer position
> like Newsletter Editor or Webmaster.
>  I was thinking of something like the Orion 4.5" dob ($230)  with a Telrad
> ($40), a copy of Turn Left at Orion ($17), and Bright Star 2000 or similar
> ($10).  The whole package would come to about $300 plus shipping.  If all of
> the 60-some members of CHAOS kicked in $5, it could be paid for without
> dipping into the club's treasury.
>
>
> General questions to list members:
>
>
>    o If we had such a scope, would you use it?
>
>
>    o If you're not currently a CHAOS member, and the loaner scope was
>       available only to members (fairly standard practice in clubs with
>       loaner scopes), would it be an incentive to join?
>
>
>    o Do anyone have a similar scope they'd want to donate?  CHAOS _is_
>       a 501(c)3 corporation, and i think it'd be tax deductible.
>
>
> Any thoughts on the proposal?
>
>
> J.
>
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