wookie1965

Just a couple more. 

If the images I have got up to x125 in this scope on the sun it's going to be brilliant on double stars. 

Herschel solar wedge, polarising filter various eyepieces, 12.5mm, 10mm, 8mm and both of my zooms. 

A warm welcome to SGL and some cracking pictures there.

Wow lovely set up. 

Just got this thanks to Mark (callisto) cannot wait to try it on the sun. 

33 minutes ago, Saganite said:

Thanks Paul I appreciate your comment and it was a great shame you couldn't make it, but one of these days.

It is a lovely scope and I count myself fortunate to have got it , but the reality is that I almost certainly see no more than you do with your scopes.

Take care

Thanks Steve I was really looking forward to it, not done any astro since the first week in December, when I found out about this it gave me a nudge to try and sort myself out and stop feeling so bad, I had motivation. 

My son looked at car last night and said best get a mechanic I rang a friend and sent him a video so cambelt change now £400 what could I have bought with that money. 

Gutted beyond belief been feeling terrible all day. Arr well there is always next year if I am here. 

5 minutes ago, Saganite said:

Thanks Mike.

My concerns about it not being stark white but creamy , something I have not seen before on a Vixen, do not matter because there will be none of the original accessories on it.

What a scope I can only dream of something like that.

2 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

Underwhelming is being kind. I have to say I found the venue and the number of vendors somewhat disappointing. Even the food on offer wasn't what we've been used to, with dry bread with either fatty bacon or the healthier sausage option. I had sausage on a dry bap with what I think was coffee.  That aside, I had chance to meet up with saganite (Steve), who may not be heard from again once his dearly beloved finds out what he's bought. And Alan W and paulastro was there too, making up a small group of SGLers.

I did manage to buy a couple of eyepieces I've been after for a while. Now I have the full range! And also joined the Society for the History of Astronomy, and received a nice welcome pack, a hand full of free magazines and I also bought a couple of second hand books that caught my eye.

I would of loved to have been there could not take the chance on a 200mile round trip with a dodgy water pump been quoted £400 for it to done with a new cambelt.

Well I am gutted I cannot get there had a knocking on the car its either the alternator pully or the cambelt pulleys neither of which I want to be doing a 200mile trip. So trip to the garage Monday morning. 

I was so looking forward to this been really down for a while now not being able to get out because of the weather and medical problems.

Well chaps its the water pump so definitely cambelt change. 

Loads of action cracking drawings Nick. 

Wow that's how you do them brilliant. 

Absolutely brilliant sketches really captured alot of detail there. 

@Stu (Cotterless45) could not remember his password lol. 

1 minute ago, dweller25 said:

Is the crown at the front of the scope, facing incoming light ?

Yes it is the light will hit the crown first before going into the flint on its way to the focuser. 

11 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

@wookie1965

Just for clarity here is a diagram of how the lens arrangement should be, with the crown facing the stars…..

Yes that is what I have now, the flint has 2 pieces of scotch magic tape the third position looks like a piece of tinfoil. 

A devil to keep in place but managed it. 

3 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

 In a Fraunhoffer it's usual for the front Crown element to be convex on both surfaces, while the rear Flint element has a concave surface facing forward while the rear facing surface looks almost Flat, though it isn't. If the flint is forward you may have spherical aberration.

The flint has a flat back and concave front pointing forward the crown to be honest does have two convex surfaces one more so than the other, what flummoxed me was the lens where marked and as most people would do I had the arrows pointing at each other.

Whoever opened it must not be an astronomer as I would think 99.9% would mark them up pointing at each other not both the same way. 

31 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

Perfectly reasonable to have the markings pointing outwards as that is the direction they face.  However, the convention is usually to have the arrows facing each other as the apex of both then also determines the radial location.     🙂

It was dweller25 who said try it and I thought someone else may have marked them that way it was worth a try. 

3 hours ago, dweller25 said:

Result 👍🙂

It was you who suggested flipping the mirror over so both arrows point out not the way I would of marked it but there it is, it was the only configuration left. the person who had it before cut  the back off the little cap on the dust cap  and put solar film in so before I got the wedge out I pointed it at the Sun and just looked through all blurred but when I started to focus I could see the spots I was doing a jig all around the garden.

Put the wedge in and the celestron zoom focused I could not believe how good it looked went down to 8mm and was still focused there were a few whoops of joy I must say.

Cannot wait now get a session in the dark.

Well ladies and gentleman the scope is fixed. I am very surprised that the arrows both point the same way on the glass but its working now.

Thank you everyone that has replied and helped really appreciate it.

Paul 

12 hours ago, Ratlet said:

Not enough InFocus or outfocus?

In focus I have even got one of these to give me a extra 8/9mm 

A warm welcome to SGL

I have had one for months but not had a good chance to give it a good review hopefully the weather picks up I have not been out since the first week in December. 

Won't work in the Tal with the herschel wedge won't focus. 

They usually take 3 from memory. 

Would this fit my Vixen 102M so I can put a finder scope on. 

The original bracket is like this in the photo thank you for your help. 

Hi fellow SGLers who is going to this year's event at the new destination, as this will be my first time I would like to know who to look out for. 

Paul 

Right done it hissing down here so cannot try it looking like Monday morning now.