An astronomy magazine series is starting soon and shipping parts of an orrery with each of its 52 issues.
It looks nice, but before I spend the money, I'd like to know wether someone here has collected the magazines and built the orrery already and can comment on the workmanship of the parts as well as the complexity of the construction process (as I'm not really a talented craftsman ).
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I've found an astonomy board Sky at night magazinediscussing the orrery and its apparent successor, a tellurion (a device depicting only the earth's and moon's orbit around the sun). I haven't read all of the 40 or so pages of the thread, but the general trend it seems favorable.
"In view of the circumstances, Britannia waives the rules."
"All you have to do is to look at Northern Ireland, [...] to see how seriously the religious folks take "thou shall not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable." George Carlin
"We need to make gay people live in fear again! What ever happened to the traditional family values of persecution and lies?" - Darth Wong
"The closet got full and some homosexuals may have escaped onto the internet?"- Stormbringer
I've heard about this orrery. Its supposed to be really well-made, but as far as I know you can't get them to ship the parts to the US so I can't get it.
You're in Austria, if the cost is reasonable I'd go for it.
Edit: SWEET! I can get it for 5 payments of $70 each over a one-year period. This is gonna look AWESOME in my classroom.
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CaptainChewbacca wrote:I've heard about this orrery. Its supposed to be really well-made, but as far as I know you can't get them to ship the parts to the US so I can't get it.
You're in Austria, if the cost is reasonable I'd go for it.
Edit: SWEET! I can get it for 5 payments of $70 each over a one-year period. This is gonna look AWESOME in my classroom.
Finished ones are available on ebay for about half the price of the magazines, but I'd want to build it myself - that way, I'm responsible if it's not working
"In view of the circumstances, Britannia waives the rules."
"All you have to do is to look at Northern Ireland, [...] to see how seriously the religious folks take "thou shall not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable." George Carlin
"We need to make gay people live in fear again! What ever happened to the traditional family values of persecution and lies?" - Darth Wong
"The closet got full and some homosexuals may have escaped onto the internet?"- Stormbringer
Do those "Build your own trombone from parts over 223 issues" magazines actually finish? You only ever see adverts for them when they're starting (as nobody is going to start buying half way through building the gimmick) and then they vanish. With a subscriber base that can only drop over the course of the magazine it seems like exactly the thing that becomes unprofitable and stops 3/4 of the way through every time.
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They usually go subscriber-only after a while, which is why they disappear from newsagent shelves. From reading that Sky At Night forum thread, that one ran the course.
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CaptainChewbacca wrote:I couldn't resist anymore, I bought one. It'll look GREAT in my classroom.
Pictures Please ! Ready made or all parts separately/all magazine issues ?
I'll have to let the opportunity pass, due to not getting the job I thought I had for sure
"In view of the circumstances, Britannia waives the rules."
"All you have to do is to look at Northern Ireland, [...] to see how seriously the religious folks take "thou shall not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable." George Carlin
"We need to make gay people live in fear again! What ever happened to the traditional family values of persecution and lies?" - Darth Wong
"The closet got full and some homosexuals may have escaped onto the internet?"- Stormbringer
CaptainChewbacca wrote:I ordered all the parts/magazines in one lot, but to get it ready-made would've been another $90. I'll assemble it myself.
My parents gave me a large check for christmas, part is going to this and the rest will be books.
Still looking forward to pictures taken during conctruction
"In view of the circumstances, Britannia waives the rules."
"All you have to do is to look at Northern Ireland, [...] to see how seriously the religious folks take "thou shall not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable." George Carlin
"We need to make gay people live in fear again! What ever happened to the traditional family values of persecution and lies?" - Darth Wong
"The closet got full and some homosexuals may have escaped onto the internet?"- Stormbringer
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