glynnlondon

This is an great question I love my 4" tal

Tho may be complementing  it at last  with an 8" dob.

4" ed frac may be on the cards as well

No doubt the how many eyes have you got and you can't read the paper anyway barbs are probably incoming 

My 100r a keeper 

9 hours ago, Ags said:

I do dream about dream scopes and I am glad they exist. I think if a future archaeologist digs up a Questar, they would smile at our folly and think more kindly of our barbaric culture!

Mmmmm Questar. I do have a spare kidney 🤔

1 hour ago, DhamR said:

Does snow normally precede telescope delivery? 

All new scopes come with weather I'm afraid.

At least you're not getting a Takahashi , you wouldn't see clear skies till next June 😊

The DOB has the superior aperture so for visual that would win out for me.

You could of course also get a small frac like an ed 80 , they are fairly ubiquitous in the UK secondary market and go for a couple of hundred pounds.

That could work for ap on your eq5 and use the DOB for visual maybe.

Each to their own , that's why it's a good idea to visit a local astronomy club to see what suits you best.

I for one will be keeping my Tal I'm happy to say.

Aperture rules my Bottom ?

Me too I was hoping for more than 5kg myself. I thought being skywatcher they might have made it with their 5 inch scope in mind. Bit disappointed in all honesty , tho the slo mo controls look nice.

6 minutes ago, Paz said:

Here's a couple from my dob of the moon and saturn with a phone. I humbly submit the saturn shot as being in with a chance of a prize!

 

looks like you've caught the Orion nebula as well as a bonus!

I keep looking at these, hmm candy apple red . If they had the brass dew shield I think they would tip me over the edge!

Not cheap, but I do like that i'ts hand crafted and unique:

http://skylight-telescopes.com/?page_id=314

Blooming fone that's come out all spangly

Like a dob on Vega

Well, I dunno about that, I never could get on with alt-az, right from the off, seemed daft to push a 'scope around in two axis when you need only do one.

And now I've turned to the dark side there's no going back.

My Tal 100 R on old mount setup 

and on new mount setup 

With the clear skies tonight I had the scope out and also found an old xmas present i hadnt even opened.

 An astronomy with binoculars package.

In it were a pair of orion explorer 7 x 35 wa bins with 4 dustcaps in a plastic bag inside a canvas case.

First light they showed up the pleiades and andromeda lovely.

An orion redbeam mini as well tho its been so many years the batteries are dead !

Back in the mid 80s I used my fathers 10 x 50 Carl Zeiss Jena bins and a book called astronomy with binoculars. I remember they were pretty good but blooming heavy. They were clattered clambering up the roof of the shed more than a few times ! My favourite view was the smudge of the andromeda galaxy