Posts Made By: Jim Ziemba

Sunday Oct.29 around 8pm, Comet Swan in a 8" f/6 Meade reflector at 60x looked as big and bright as M-13. Swan had a brighter core though. It was a half moonlit night and I am about 4 miles N.E.of Detroit Metro Airport. I observed no tail.

Since 1957 My Detroit Lions have been in the playoffs 3 times. Should the Lions be in the NFL at all? They use the same plays over and over again. I took the Lions to the Super Bowl on Playstation 2 against the computer and I am 59 years old. Maybe the Lions needs someone with my experience. Surely we haven't tried everything. I guess we will get the #1 draft pick again. I can't remember where these draft picks go---they seem to get lost or quit period. Barry Sanders if you can still run, please come back!

How about those Detroit Lions. They just beat Cleveland for their 2nd win this year and the 3rd in the past 31 games-going back to the last half of 2007. We don't and can't afford another 1st round pick! We will be using-up the salary cap on just a handfull of players. They always seem to draft a quaterback or wide receiver for theie 1st pick. They needed a running back since Barry Sanders retired and they pasted up on Adrian Peterson to get Calvin Johnson who is outstanding-but always is double or tripled teamed while the other guys are open-but don't get the ball. A superstar running back comes around every decade-and The Lions are paying the price for not drafting him. Barry Sanders averaged 5 yards a carry for 10-years. Why not a 1st down every other play? That would make the receivers that more dangerous if Adrian Peterson was to play for Detroit. Where is all the high draft pick's in the past 10-years? Either on other teams or not in the NFL. We will see if Matt Stafford or Calvin Johnson are still with Detroit in the next few years. Sorry if I'm negative-but we have won only 1 playoff game in 52-years and only appeared in a few of them. Who knows-but maybe Detroit will get their act together,but I hate to be around the 2010 NFL Draft when its the Lions turn for their pick!

I purchase this used late last year & have no information about this scope. My camera will not transfer pics. to this website-but I can tell you it has a powder-coated white tube with a nice crayford focuser that rotates 360-degrees. The optics are equal to a Celestron/Vixen 4" f/9.8 I use to own back in the early to mid 1990's. Does anyone have more information? Thanks.

Jim