Alan White

That was interesting to read, listen to and watch. Very interesting indeed. Looks a cheap way into radio interests, obviously a money pit once the door is opened of course!! 😂

Charl, you can choose a Zoom, the world is your UniCycle Oyster so to speak!

No separate thread, you can have a multitude of scopes but just one Eyepiece to use with them all!

You used to be indecisive @JamesF, but are not so sure anymore 😂 So come on which of the herd is 'The One'?

Oh yes George, You can have Many, Many telescopes. 😆 As for Eyepieces, Many more than the Many Telescopes apply. 😆 Hope that helps 😉

Be interested in what you go for Grumpy.

I had a thread on this a while back, Altair told me it would be about £2K to purchase, I passed on that option very quickly. https://www.facebook.com/altair.astro/posts/altair-sabre-mount-with-prototype-encoders-and-astro-devices-nexus-dsc-computer-/1947552825487895/ The second link is the Facebook posting from Altair.

Sorry Ed. In reality it set off my dreaming last night and it was terrible! Who would of thought it eh.

Having pondered my present fleet of scopes more overnight, I have changed my thoughts slightly. I would as the one and only have a 10" Dobsonian, for ease of use and its ability to please enough. This 10" would be my OOUK 10" 1/6 wave but reworked as dobs are to my liking.

Me too Vlaiv, me too.

Now that's an idea for another thread......... I will resist, I will resist, I will.....

You will be frisked and any extraneous Eyepieces will be confiscated! Every class has a naughty one!

Nice thinking Rudd.

No Russ, just one. As other have said zoom and a barlow/s is an option.

Just finished fitting a heater to my Telrad, love the Telrad. It is a bought in circuit board from Dew Control, self adhesive but you solder on wires. Drilled a small hole in Telrad to route wires to a plug. All my heaters are on short leads that I then connect to identical longer leads, this makes lead issues in the field simple to fix as all the leads are the same. This makes the unit neat when used without the heater. All run from 12v from mains unit, battery (12v) or via a USB Power bank and step up lead from W&W Astro. Should add it works very well, did a trial before cutting the hole and its excellent, far less fraught with damage danger from a resistor fitting yourself. It was not expensive and is very neat.

Thanks Ags, nice pointer they are posting in the wrong thread.

How did I know the zooms would be a favourite option.

Post Person just delivered 2nd USB to 12v lead from W&W Astro at £7 delivered. They work well from a 10k rate USB Power Bank.

You both asked so nicely

Following on from my one telescope thread and suggestions made, here it is.... If you could only have one eyepiece, what would it be? I know that it is very unlikely a reality, but what the heck. I would keep my 19mm Panoptic, just love it to bits. Go on, join in, don't be grumpy or say you wouldn't do it, play on.......

So in this scenario you would then have none! Go on Ben, join in

To bring my own thread back to life one more line of thought. The Secondary holder is big lump of cast alloy and does not allow for a neat installation of a heater. Or does it? The stalks on all other secondaries are of a smaller diameter that I have seen. Has anyone adapted the OOUK big lump of alloy to a smaller one to fit a secondary heater? Photo again of what I have: On my SW Newts the same f5 ratio, the holder was smaller and to be honest I felt worked better. Insert other media

Shane, glad nightfisher has prodded for an update, otherwise I would have missed your thread somehow. What a lot of work pre Obs you have done, hat off to you on this whole project. One question. How tall is the pier plan for above ground? Interesting design you have, looks good. An update would be great too

You could, but that would be a Super Expensive finder as well!!

Well that's got you all thinking on a wet afternoon and evening. A very interesting and (not unexpectedly) mixed bag of answers. I note some are not fully playing the game though by wanting more than one scope, myself included. Keep on posting folks.