faulksy

Come on and post. All dob's are cool matey.

Here's my baby Dob

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bit dusty isnt it steve on the base never seen that before ste

16th of june is new moon

Hi there!

That looks like. Some awesome stargazing equipment! Did u make that? I love the sky. What can u tell me about my birth date? Oct. 26 1970. Please reply. I'm interested and fascinated.

your birth date means you are 45 and you will be 46 on october 26th

oh you dob mob really stand up for each other don't you'se

dont worry scott, we will stick up for you when you buy your dob

heres a pic of my old sct

being moded with steel bearings and last one in a place some were black

.....enough of these 'fracs & Dobs. Let's see some proper scopes!

My collection (so far....)

6" GSO F4 Newt

8" Cape Newise F5 Newt

8" GSO F4 Newt

10" GSO F4 Newt

12" GSO F4 Newt

i see on the forth picture you have got what looks like a bucket of wood ready to burn your newt, good idea

I need to downsize, and keep telling myself.....  I don't need a dob,  I don't need a dob; and reading these threads don't help.

Do I really need a dob ?  

of course you do

On top of where mate?

on top of the leader board

me to steve be nice to see it. lets get the dobs back on top were they belong

its a sort of telescope that you can set up in 10 mins look at stuff in great detail and tick off 10 or so objects by the time you've got alignment!...

probably more calv if you include looking through the little frac

YTS!! £27.50 a week but I worked with my dad who doubled it because I worked so hard.....bought my first vespa that year also!!

i dont believe you worked so hard. i can tell your lying because your lips are moving

My baby

more wires than my dob lol. looks good mate

i was realy enjoying this thread untill someone put that pic up of the 28" webster, god darn it

weres that 28" webster

Two new eyepieces just arrived, and I cannot hold myself any longer.

Here is my humble little case (still awaiting 24 Pan).

what clean hands you have got nice the black and greens

Faulksy,

Are you trying to blow yours up, almost looks like a wire harness for TNT.

Alan.

hi alan, there optics heaters and supply for my push to. just not plugged in

Well I'll oblige if you are feeling coy [emoji12]

give it him both barrels stu

that's mikes sat-nav for ya Sam!

pm,s

heres one i just took

Here is a current pic of my lot. From L to R: Case 1 = Lumicon 2" O-III Filter, Omega 2" DGM NBP Filter, Lumicon 1.25" H-Beta Filter, Ethos 6mm, 8mm, 13mm and 21mm, Nagler 31mm

Case 2: 3mm Radian, 3.5mm Pentax XW, 4mm Radian, 5mm Pentax XW. Case 3: TV plossls 32mm, 25mm, 20mm, 15mm, 11mm and 8mm, 2.5x Powermate. It's an ortho-free zone currently, which is a bit unusual because I usually have one or two of those around.

i reckon theres room for the 3.7mm ethos in case number 1 john :smiley:

spot on acey. agree with you 100%. thanks for that brilliant post

Richard,

Many thanks for the kind words but I don't know where you got the idea I was experienced at anything, most ot the time I just thrash around in the dark. I do enjoy doubles but Nick is the one for them, I often observe purely on the back of his reports though I must confess to being in love with Sirius.

I am sure Nexas is great but it will be very difficult and risky for me to get hold of from Australia and I will not use the States to buy from unless I am there which was I different matter, I do like to try and keep it within Europe. I have just also got hold of 3 very high spec Lenovo pro Thinkpads for silly money all with the RS232 port, these are very rare now and dam costly to buy a Laptop with one on. I think Argo Navis just sounds as if it lends itself better to a laptop as I do not have an i phone.

I am going to play find the target for the moment as the strength of the pound and dollar has pushed the price of stuff up a great deal for me, just look at a 21mm Ethos form TS now 910 euros, though no doubt if you asked them to price match Telly House, which I did once, they would do it again.

Alan.

hi alan, with reference to the i phone i use a android smart phone you can also use a tablet

Hi all,

we're close to a hundred pages now. Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to start a new thread "Show us your eyepiece case(s) part 2" ?

Cheers

more like part 20

The Nexus seems very good by what you all say but I see it as only available from the USA and there is no way i will buy from there I just don't agree with it. I am very happy to support UK dealers from here and the Local and European dealers but not America. I do hold anything against people that do this though. This was the only reason I opted for the Argo Navis.

Is there anyone you know of in the UK that deals with these units after all they are made in Australia I think.

Alan 

they are ozzy alan as you say. we were speaking to steve and james at flo at sgl 10 and they loved the system. there on about getting in touch with serge at astro systems

Stu,

I have the encoder fixing points and various connection bars made ready, I was going to put the Argo Navis system on at some point but it is a bit on the expensive side ( what isn't) but it could well be a next purchase. I really think I have enough eyepieces and in truth could even lose a few and not notice too much. I don't see anyone in England that seems to sell this stuff and I only really want to deal with the best retailers. The trouble at the moment is with the Pound and Dollar being strong against the Euro, the likes of TS stock has shot up a great deal, well over 10%, a 21mm Ethos from them is now over 900 Euros.

I am very happy at the moment pushing and pulling my way around but I can't say I am very professional at it, I bet if a few of you could see me it would give you all a dam good laugh. I have been out 3 hours and the seeing tonight was poor, so much so I almost thought, is that Jupiter? Nothing like Saturday night when it was hey, come look at this !

What I am finding very watchable are many doubles that are now showing colour where as before they did not, I found a lovely double near Sirius (blue gold) which because of where it was I may even be able to find it again, it seems to show colour even on 5th and 6th mag stars.

I took it apart Saturday and it didn't take very long to re-build though I was a bit nervous at first , collimation was so easy I am ashamed to say I even had a problem in this area :mad: , still it takes a man to admit things he got wrong sometimes.

I know you have one Stu but I am very impressed with the combination of Sumerian and Nichols, Calvin was not wrong when he said i will not find better but he then he would .

I also find this Atlas that you switched me on to very useful .

Dannae,

Greta advice on the doubles and yes I am a fan of these.

alan

glad your having fun alan and your scope is brilliant. as stu says forget argo navis go for the nexus system same idea as argo but £400 made on the same industrial estate as well. here you go http://www.astrodevices.com/products/Nexus/Nexus.html i would also reccomend a red dot finder i find this easy for locating things