johninderby

The Nirvana ES 16mm 82 degree eyepiece arrived. 🙂

Tried it in the Quark 60 scope and it worked brilliantly..The sun’s  disc nearly filled the fov and showed good detail that was nearly as sharp as the TV plossl but at a bigger scale. With the TV had to position my eye just right to be able to see anything but with the Nirvana position wasn’t so important. Was just easier to look through.

Of course after a few minutes the clouds came racing in and ended the little observing session. 🤬

Regular zoom binoculars make good paperweights and that’s about all they’re good for. 👎🏽

I’ve had both the Baader and the Lacerta and honestly no difference. 

Has anyone actualy seen one of the ES 30mm 3” eyepieces. Now that looks like a real monster.

Focal Length 30mm

Length200mm

Width107mm

Weight82.9oz; 2353g

Barrel Size3.00

Glad ot all seems to be coming together for you.  Looking forward to seeing pics of the finished project. 

24 minutes ago, LukeSkywatcher said:

Your Dog seems impressed.

Bet he wasn’t so impressed when he found the box didn’t contain doggy treats. 😁

Bit expensive but Telescope Express do a lot of carbon fibre tubes.

https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p5700_Carbon-Tube-Upgrade-ORION-UK-10--Newtonian-Telescopes.html

https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/index.php/cat/c64_Telescope-Making-----mechanical-parts.html

I’ll watch it later and Space Volcanos also recorded tonight.

Added 10 minutes to the recording time. 🙂

Lens flare off Titan’s lakes coming up not to mention sunlight through the rings then. 😁

Enjoying the series though. 👍🏻

The flex tube OTA is actually heavier than the solid tube. All the additional bits need to make the tube collaspable weigh more than just a bit of plain tube.

It was originally a flex tube but I sold the flex tube OTA and bought  the solid newt OTA . Used a pair of the regular dob mounting parts and drilled mounting holes in the tube. 

You could make your own solid tube goto. I did a 250px version a few years ago by combining a Skywatcher newt OTA with a GOTO base. Makes you wonder why Skywatcher doesn’t offer this as an option. They would probably say not enough demand but I think there would be.

Some sun here tomorrow....maybe. 🙏🏼

I think this little scope is going to be very popular. 

They are nice little scopes and quite reasonably priced as well. 👍🏻

One of those must get one one day scopes. Well actually I’d rather have a Zeiss APQ 130/1000 trriplet fluorite but ££££ 🙂

I’ve just about forgotten what sunshine looks like. 😢

Some vinyl lettering. 😁

Never named a scope before but this one has brought clouds like no other. 🙁

Berlebach tripod spreader.........for my EQ6 tripod. 🙂

Ah but I hear you say you can’t fit a Berlebach spreader to an EQ6 tripod. Well yes you can with the right bits and almost zero DIY skills needed and the end result looks like a proper job (no bodging).

See the “EQ6 Tripod With Berlebach Spreader thread in the DIY Astronomer section.

Just be prepared for lots and lots of cloud to come with it. 😢

I call mine The Cloud Bringer 😁

A lot of the APM and TS  things are the same except for the name. 

Yes the Bresser has a standard SCT thread allready. 

The TS adapter has a proper compression ring fitting as well as the T2 thread on the top. Hate the cheapie visual backs they use on little maks. 

KOn my Bresser 127 mak I used an SCT to T2 adapter and then a T2 1.25” eyepiece extension tube.  Really nice and solid. 365Astronomy carries a lot of the TS bits so would be worth checking as their shipping will be less.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TS-Optics-SCT-Adapter-SC-to-T2-Celestron-Meade-Schmidt-Cassegrain-TSSC-T2s/371462432155?hash=item567ce2e59b:g:5xIAAOSwl9BWG6Lg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371655503672?ul_ref=http%3A%2F%2Frover.ebay.com%2Frover%2F1%2F710-53481-19255-0%2F1%3Ftype%3D2%26pub%3D5575403537%26toolid%3D10001%26campid%3D5338343596%26item%3D371655503672%26customid%3Dvms%253Aeb%253Ap%253A371655503672%253BCN7v9cvX3uICFYn4UQodKMsAMA%26gclid%3DCN7v9cvX3uICFYn4UQodKMsAMA%26srcrot%3D710-53481-19255-0%26rvr_id%3D2002451833018%26rvr_ts%3D40e3b9d316b0ac802fd0fabdffec0685&ul_noapp=true

I actually used a Skiesthelimit SCT to T2 adapter as it was cheaper but doesn’t seem to be available.

Come on get that saddle sitting on the counter installed. 😁

Nice little mount. 👍🏻

Looked at that online but wasn’t sure how good it was for the money. Will be inrerested in seeing how it turns out.

Altair dual fit saddle for my TS Alt-Az mount (Skytee). Direct bolt on and now can use the Skymax 180 with it’s Losmandy dovetail as well as my other scopes.