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nightfisher

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Teslar

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Yeh I'm impressed with the views just looking to stiffen it up with the rings but trying to find the best way of taking up the slack. I tried some off cuts of felt when I was working out the space to fill but found the felt allowed the scope to slide no matter how tight the rings were so I'm hoping cork will be a bit more grippy :)

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nightfisher

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The cork should work well, i used a foam sticky back draft excluder to fill the gap, only needed to take up about 4mm, still keep toying with selling the 180, and getting the 150 pro, as then i could use it on the AZ4 ....time will tell

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A McEwan

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Budget-wise, when these 180 Maks do appear, they often sell for relatively low prices. A "few" hundred pounds, as opposed to "several" hundred pounds for 8" SCT tubes or similar. I suspect people don't really realise what brilliant scopes they are once you grow accustomed to their little foibles.

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Budget-wise, when these 180 Maks do appear, they often sell for relatively low prices. A "few" hundred pounds, as opposed to "several" hundred pounds for 8" SCT tubes or similar. I suspect people don't really realise what brilliant scopes they are once you grow accustomed to their little foibles.

Ant

Have to say dont know if i will be keeping mine, i have an idea to get a 10" dob on a tracking platform, that would need the mak and syntrek to go to fund the project, no rush decisions though

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Hi Folks, meet the new owner of Jules' Mak. Me :grin::icon_salut:

Picked it up off Jules on sunday and managed 1st light last night. Its a great scope and it didn't disappoint.

I used to have an Orion Apex 127 but sold it a couple of years ago and typically regretted it since. Now Ive got Mak overload with this luvly scope :grin:  Didn't manage to do Jupiter properly last night before the clouds rolled in here but what I did see showed a tantalizing glimpse of what to expect. However I had a great time on doubles and DSOs.

Thanks again Jules

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Hi Folks, meet the new owner of Jules' Mak. Me :grin::icon_salut:

Picked it up off Jules on sunday and managed 1st light last night. Its a great scope and it didn't disappoint.

I used to have an Orion Apex 127 but sold it a couple of years ago and typically regretted it since. Now Ive got Mak overload with this luvly scope :grin:  Didn't manage to do Jupiter properly last night before the clouds rolled in here but what I did see showed a tantalizing glimpse of what to expect. However I had a great time on doubles and DSOs.

Thanks again Jules

I had been thinking of selling the 180 for about a year, and downsizing to the 150 pro, it took so long to make my mind up as the 180 is a superb scope, but sadly it just was not getting used, i feel i ave done the right thing getting a 150 pro, as i can use it on the AZ 4 mount for visual and still put it on the HEQ for luna imaging, so i feel i have traded a bit of aperture for more all round usability

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