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Moonshane

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  1. this sounds daft but it may be worth buying a another used one, checking the order by careful removal (aligning each of your own lenses as you take one out of the other one) and then once all back together, sell one of them. assuming there's no damage and you are happy it works fine I'd knock off a bit (20%?) from the normal used price and explain the circumstances. I am sure it would be snapped up.
  2. Lovely box Tim. Oh the eyepieces look good too!
  3. Haha they were originally but fitted slightly better like this!
  4. I do indeed Derek almost every session. It is my bread and butter double star ep.
  5. Here's my latest incarnation. Recently sold 13mm Ethos to add 16mm T2 Nagler plus added a 40mm TV Widefield. I think I am done although I am a little tempted for a mid-range zoom for solar. I think I need a new foam insert!
  6. The Vixen has landed!

  7. One out, one in. I have sold a scope (130mm Newt) to buy another one (80mm f11 frac) for solar use. Must be losing my grip - FRACS????

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    2. Dude_with_the_tube

      Dude_with_the_tube

      i use my frac for solar and its great Shane.just wondering,do you plan to PST mode it or its gonna be white solar??

    3. Luke

      Luke

      Those fracs sure do work nice for solar :) The detail you can see in white light with a Herschel wedge is bonkers.

    4. Moonshane

      Moonshane

      Nah just going to use it as a white light solar scope plus maybe doubles etc as a change from my 6" f11. it will mainly sit on the giro opposite the Lunt 50 when this arrives.

  8. Back on the giro.....just bought a Giro and pillar mount. Really glad to have this set up again.

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    2. Moonshane

      Moonshane

      it does Jules but I have had to sell quite a bit of gear (mostly non-astro old moth stuff) to get to the £900 selling price!

    3. nightfisher
    4. Moonshane

      Moonshane

      Created a thread with pics

  9. hopefully I'll be able to do a comparison between 40mm widefield, 32mm TV plossl and 26mm Nagler. three very different eyepieces but will be interesting.
  10. yep it was the very same. I did what you did but then just went for it. Calv, me too mate. good weather never seems to coincide with availability currently!
  11. I am near Mancunia so in between. we've got no chance have we.
  12. don't worry I'll stick to my Ethos of cheaper and older and allowing me to buy other stuff. mmmmm I felt like I used a subliminal word there somehow........
  13. For the money it was worth a punt I think as I've always wanted to try a widest 2" field eyepiece despite the exit pupil issues. I'll report back when I have managed to use it for a bit. From a dark site it will be interesting to use it with my 130mm f5 giving over 4 degrees (exit pupil 8mm) at 16x or with my 6" f5 (3.5 degrees and 18x) with an Oiii and the Veil. in the case of the latter though I'll need to get around to fitting the 2" focuser I have lined up for it.
  14. Oh, god. I have just bought a 2" 40m widefield, albeit for £80. the money for my Lunt is starting to burn a hole in my pocket although I still have enough in my pot for now! It gives me 1.4 degrees approx. in my big dob albeit at an exit pupil of a whopping 8.8mm. might be OK at dark sites. it will be interesting to use it in my 6" f11 for 1.6 degrees (3.6mm exit pupil) although balancing may be tricksy as it weighs about the same as a 31mm Nagler.
  15. I once saw a bar on holiday in Turkey that advertised 'free beer tomorrow'
  16. I'm becoming a bit of a solar addict. I can give it up any time though.

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    2. Ant

      Ant

      It's only for visual... Yeah I've heard that before. :)

    3. Sarah

      Sarah

      Sounds like a great combo! We have definitely had more use from our solar gear than the night time astronomy over the last year.

    4. Moonshane

      Moonshane

      No seriously i have (literally) no interest in imaging unless you count sketching :0)

  17. surely all you need to do is establish the mid point for the most inward focusing eyepiece and most outward focusing eyepiece and then buy or use an extension tube that allows for this difference within the 45mm of travel? e.g. the difference between the most inward position (7mm BGO) and outward position (26mm Nagler) is about 18mm. in your shoes, I'd set the focuser at say 10mm then establish how much extension your most inward focusing eyepiece needs. then do the same with your most outward focusing eyepiece (this will be easier with someone's help, for the measuring, possibly). if the differece is less then 35mm (the difference between 10mm out already and max outward position) then the length of extension for the most inward focusing eyepiece to achieve focus will be fine for all eyepieces. you'll then just need the one extension which can always stay in the scope. hopefully this will be a standard extension distance (35mm, 50mm or 80mm, or even your 120mm supplied with the scope). another option might be to do the above process but use a baader fine tuning ring (28mm perhaps) to allow some additional small extension to your 120mmtube to achieve the same result. hope this is clear but feel free to seek clarification.
  18. ahhh, I see, there's a hinge on one side. seems to be a good idea. might try to make one.
  19. no it was a serious query. an equatorial platform drives from one side of a conical section to another. but this will surely drop from the top to the bottom as the tyre inner tube deflates. actually in thinking about it, I have sussed the mechanism. the hiss drive does indeed drop but presumably also as part of the same conical section, just vertically rather than horizontally - it makes no dofference of course. the final thing I don't get is how the arc is controlled?
  20. I don't really understand how this works but it clearly does. can anyone summarise?
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