Moonlit Night

Well there you go. So the question is why aren’t refractors made in the UK? We do have OO and they do make decent mirrors. Only problem is you have to deal with OO to buy one. Unfortunately their legendary customer service is toe curling. I wonder where they get their correcter plates for their ridiculously overpriced cats from?

Interesting

I know lots of people who live or lived on the boats. A few lived in wagons like we used back in the day, when we were allowed to be free.

I don’t think there’s canals like we have in the UK

It happened to me buying an electric double bass. Nasty shock.

In the long dark tea time of the soul, most definitely…

Oh, they are still very, very good. Top bloke Douglas, bless him.

If it was me I would certainly be going with the tried and tested Williams Optics number, but that’s just me mind.

Very much looking forward to seeing the finished project

Fine here, checked this morning

Indeed

Hello and welcome

Dunno, maybe you’re right. Are they still making objectives for Skywatcher? They certainly don’t badge their scopes with Schott anymore.

And TS for that matter.

Plenty of folks on the other channel buy from FLO

White is the only colour for telescopes. Black is a stupid colour for scopes. I had an old 10 inch black OO Europa some of us may remember back in the day on a later OO dob base. It had an absolutely appalling 1.25 r&r focuser, but that matters not. The point is the entire thing was black and I was continually walking into the damned thing in the dark. It was a health and safety nightmare…

I wonder why M97 is missing from the Messier list?

Yeah, something like that

My TV 102 was made in America, the objective was made in Japan. Not that’s exactly the same thing. I wonder which country the glass in your zoom was produced in? I am sure it must have been assembled in Portugal. Do you not have to buy from Russia to obtain glass produced on the European continent?

I take your point about masking btw, but I don’t think many people would accept it as a long term solution.

I think it has enough for most folks these days not to buy one. Obviously f10 is going to much better than fl5, but still too colourful many. Now if you’re getting in fl15, well that’s another matter, especially a 3 inch frac. But as they say, CA is in the eye of the beholder. fpl 51 glass even is a massive step forward.

I aim to please…

Some? At that focal length you would be buying pretty much the most CA you can buy. I am sorry if this comes over as mean, I am absolutely not trolling, but on planets or bright stars you are going end up with a large purple hallo all over the object. Even at fl10 you are going to get plenty of CA

I take it you live over the pond? I would save and buy an Astro Tech scope. Honestly you don’t want to buy a Star Travel, you will absolutely want to upgrade and then you would lose money. Be patient and buy a ED scope. 800 dollars would easily buy one second hand and if you are lucky a mount too. Check out Cloudy Nights forum or whatever Astro Buy and Sell sites you have over there.