Ailsa MacNair

Ailsa MacNair first encountered serious astronomy when a guest at the hotel front desk asked her to recommend a 10-millimeter eyepiece for a 406-millimeter manual Dobsonian, and she spent the quiet portion of the night comparing eye relief, field stop, and the guest's stated tolerance for standing in frost. Recently retired from twelve years of resolving requests for rooms facing away from floodlights, she now argues with tracking-mount owners about whether a wider apparent field justifies a 2.5-kilogram eyepiece when the target has already drifted beyond the field during the explanation.