Bob Bunge's TJ2 - Story of a 20-inch Dobsonian... -
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Published on: 12/16/2000
Last Visited: 10/14/2007
In 1991, group members Tom Burns of Perkins Observatory and Jay Elkes of the Columbus Astronomical Society gifted me their shares of the telescope as a college graduation present.
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This is the original TJ as it was built in Columbus, Oh. in 1987 by Bill Burton, Tom Burns and Bob Bunge.
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Soon after TJ1 was built, Tom Burns, myself, Bill Burton and Jay Elkes took TJ to the fabled Stellafane star party in Vermont.
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From left to right: John Kerns, Tom Burns, Bob Bunge, Bill Burton, JoAnne Archinal (on ladder), Brent Archinal (with ball cap), Willkie Cirker, Tony Hohenbrink, Mitch Lumen and Carl Wenning.
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TJ builders Tom, myself and Bill are inside the tube.