swamp thing

Oh I'm sorry. For imaging purposes you'll be wanting either a newt, or an old sewer pipe with glass stuck in the end a refractor mounted on an EQ. The key I'm afraid is the EQ mount. This bane of visual observing is unfortunately needed to allow for the long exposures required for astro imaging.

^^^^^ Now thats a newt.

There are no drawbacks to a dob. Who cares about imaging?

On top of where mate?

Looking forward to that Damian Great to see so many home and amateur built scopes on this thread. The others all have their owners home grown personal touches too. Dobs are just great huh Not forgetting quaoar's mighty webster. Thanks for the pic mate.

Yeah sorry about that mate. I really need to sort the anti dew kit. One of the other dob mob (Mike) is going to help me sort that. Electrickery isn't really my thing.

My home made 20" Dob

You can wrap up en all, Frankenscope

Oi!!! I was just about to post some ya git

Come to Dobfest then

Come on quaoar where's that huge 28" Webster. We're all waiting to see it again

Knowing how short ( ) you are Mathew. That looks small..........not. What a beast that is

Lost track of how many times I've made this comparison myself Michael. I still have my 12T4 The 13mm Ethos is not on my wish list. A case of nice but no thanks I don't feel the need for the field at this focal length. The nagler is wide and certainly sharp enough for me.

Bit of a collection going on there Shane I do like my Naglers too.

Indeed Its important to note that seeing the edge of low surface brightness objects can mean the difference between seeing them and missing them altogether. Wide fields can really help here specially when increasing power to gain contrast. With narrow fields its very easy to "Look through" objects rather than at them. Wide fields may help you pick out the edges better and increase your chances of success.

Already done Steve, This is a sticky in the observing deep sky section.

What a great post Nice to see you back on the forum Rob.

Aah right. Makes sense. Thanks

Laservet how do you know which eyepiece is which with them stored that way round?

It's a relatively simple idea the axle fits into two rebates cut into the ply braces on each wheelbarrow handle. The axle fits from underneath. One simply rocks the Dob backwards and fits the axle into the slots. Gravity does the rest.The handles are held on by star headed clamp bolts threaded into t nuts on the rocker box. The axle itself is an ash hod handle.

Here's my seventy+ year old dad wheeling my 20" Dob about in his back yard. Wheelbarrow handles make moving large scopes very easy indeed. I went with a single wheel, as I needed mine to be more manoeuvrable.