No worries, he got me too.
No I do not subscribe to everything he thought on a cosmological level
but the importance of vintage photons direct to brain for everyone resonated.
Bringing telescopes out of the rarefied world of astronomers
where they were "precious" to professional and amateur alike
is what I see as his greatest legacy.
I build "public friendly" scopes as a result.
If anyone is thinking of a new mount for a Newtonian
may I suggest looking up "Sudiball" mount as they allow you
to accommodate a wider range of eyepiece heights for a given target.
(so parents are less likely to put their kids in a half-nelson screeching "DON'T TOUCH DON'T TOUCH" as they poke them in the ear with your scope)
Bringing telescopes out of the rarefied world of astronomers where they were "precious" to professional and amateur alike is what I see as his greatest legacy.
I build "public friendly" scopes as a result. If anyone is thinking of a new mount for a Newtonian may I suggest looking up "Sudiball" mount as they allow you to accommodate a wider range of eyepiece heights for a given target. (so parents are less likely to put their kids in a half-nelson screeching "DON'T TOUCH DON'T TOUCH" as they poke them in the ear with your scope)