damnut

Some great new pics to the thread.

@hjw, might be off the shelf but an excellent classic setup...

Those unitrons look the part Chas.

Hi Andrew,

Warm welcome to SGL, hope you enjoy the forums. I see your question has been answered..

Hi Halli,

Great first result with the new scope. Look forward to seeing more of your images.

Lovely setup there Damian, love those wooden tripods. Congrats.

@johnrt,

Just seen this thread, those shots are amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Gents, awesome scopes, mounting my short tube 152mm is difficult sometimes can only imagine how you cope with those beauties.

It won't be long before you release your frac on us!

Some more lovely kit. As for the DLt drive, that is recent stuff, still get nightmares abut editing paper tape and coding on cards!!

Way to go, you are definitely on the wallet emptying path of this great hobby

Hi  Jay T,

Frac's are great, but Newts & dobs are great light buckets. Don't disregard other scopes. But show us your pics ..

Great setup Neil.

Hwyl!

That would be a nice brace Mike .. Hwyl!

@Takman, you need a skytee II, I have three scopes mounted on it, so you could have room for two more, Derek is not far behind...

@Takman, that looks lovely cheers err Damian.

@DRT, Two lovely garden canons. The mount for the third scope is on the left of the 150, if there are no bolts in there, that is where it mounts. I find it more convenient to put the bigger scopes at the ends on saddles and use a smaller in the middle on the puck.

@BSN, Great scope, building needs a couple of acrow props

Looks fab L8-nite.

@badhex, that looks like the one Saddam Hussein was building!

Hi There,

Nice write up thats a lovely   scope for grab & go. Congrats.

Hwyl!

@DRT, looks like you have attached a pier extension to the hound, would make a great grab & go, our setters would not sit still enough

Some more lovely kit folks, congrats.

@laservet, lovely collection there. Congrats.

@Philip R, I liked the original Skytee  so much I have a skytee ii too. Love these az mounts.

Great thread.

Some more lovely kit, just shows the diversity within this thread,

The chap who had my Skytee ii before me (my lot on page1) had a 10"snt on one side... He replaced that standard mount v.quickly.!!! Would have hated to see that Lovely Meade 5000 Apo hit the turf!.

@telescope40,

Great setup, love the skytee II. I use the central as a finder too. If you have not already done so (cannot tell from the pic) it is worth updating the main mounts to ADM or similar. Have heard of the odd thread stripping.

John, Spaceboy,

Lovely setups gentlemen, I love the skytee / sabre mounts, you can use and abuse those with load & multiple scopes.

That is a lovely collection Roberto. Congrats.

Pete & I went down to Tring Astronomy centre  for a cuppa(!). This is his text ..Just swapped round our names so that it reads.!

Had a great day out yesterday, visited Tring Astronomy Centre with Pete Sullivan from EMS. Jane and Neil are very friendly just as stated on their website. They were officially closed today, but very kindly opened up specially for us after I phoned them yesterday. We were greeted with a coffee which was very welcome after 120 miles on the road. They have a large and very well stocked showroom with a large variety of scopes and accessories, something to interest everybody. Imager, visual or beginner, they have the largest range of tackle on stock that I have seen in any shop to date. They have a huge range of bins and spotters right from Celestron through Hawkes, up to top of the range Swarovskis. They have just about every type of scope from good quality starter scopes, various ED and apo refractors, a large full range of SCTs and Maks on goto, pretty much all of the very impressive Altair Astro mounts and scopes including a nice 10" carbon fibre truss RC, and an interesting range of eyepieces. They had various dobs including a lovely £3500 truss 18" that had me seriously considering my credit card limit and thinking of folding the back seats of the car down.

I purchase a Baader Q-Turret and 22AH Tracer lithium battery pack. They had the turret in stock, but the battery was somewhere in transit via UPS, ETA sometime today, which they would post on to me later. We had a second coffee whilst drooling over all the goodies like kids in a candy store, and then asked their recommendation where we could have lunch. They suggested we leave the car and walk several hundred yards up the road to the Robin Hood Inn, and we'd just come all the way from Robin Hood country Had a great lunch and walked back to find UPS delivering my battery, so that went in the boot.

Jane and Neil confirmed that they occupy the very same shop that David Hinds had years ago, before he went online only as Celestron UK. I vaguely remember visiting him there back in the 1980s.

Came back up the motorway and decided to go into Nottingham for refreshments in the cafe at Waterstones with some interesting books.

Tring Astronomy Centre is well worth a visit however far you have to travel.

Maybe this is the equivalent to shoe and bag shopping for the ladies .