Alan White

Nice project and progress.
I look forward to following this.
Would love an observatory one day, but house building works stop this for now.
Good luck with your build.

Glad to see it was not only me toiling away under the sun over the weekend.

and there was me thinking it was a comfy stool for observing from.........

then I remembered your an imaging guru. 

Nice parcel, will we see an unwrapped version soon Sara?

You look away from a thread for a few days and the world of SGL goes mad.
That poor postal service has been rather busy in June so far.
Has it been cloudy or something?
 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There speaks the Concrete Block Pier Master ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

15 hours ago, iPeace said:

Here's one.

Oddly, when I looked at this my initial thought was....'why has Mike got a box of ice cubes?'
Took a minute to see the pouches.
I must need a start of the weekend cold one!

A very neat ? arrangement John.

Nothing wrong with minimalistic Shaun

Resolve or will power with a used scope, what’s that? I don’t think it exists does it?

I am surprised based on the number of Tak owners here on SGL that no one else has had the same issue Steve.
As you say get it mounted (treads lightly hoping it does not set things going again) and see how it goes.
Good luck with it and keep us all informed.

Dear SGLers, please stop this right now!

How one of our members chooses to mount his fine scope, that is his or her choice.
If the type of mounting, type, colour or number offends, oh well.......we are all different are we not.
If someone has an opinion that they wish to very much MOUNT the very expensive scope they have bought and they express the opinion that the standard equipment is not up to the job, so be it, its a personal choice.
This escalating post situation, has gone beyond me and any agreement I may have had from an engineers background.

Put a stop to this right NOW, all of you - Play nice, be nice.

 

1 hour ago, LukeSkywatcher said:

Woohoo!!!!! 

Look what arrived just now. My Lunt 8x32 WL Solar Bins. Mark@beaufort (whom I bought them from) was not telling fibs when he said they are as new. These bins look like I've just gone to a shop and bought them. There isn't even a scratch on the box. 

Sun's out, so time to go see what these puppies can do. 

Full report later in the review section. 

Look nice Paul, enjoy the sunshine

Its raining here in southern Essex.

Nice be avatar 

All I need for now too Michael......                                                    Sorry its not all eyepieces! ?

37 minutes ago, PeterW said:

Getting a big box is always dangerous.....

PEterW

As is thinking your eyepiece collection is complete..........

I was so waiting for a hacksaw picture Steve......

Pheww, that is such a modular design, they are clever our friends at Takahashi.

24 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

That looks interesting Jeremy, please let us know what its like.

Well I had to show the family and the unaltered home, which is work in progress.
All now Made in Japan, hence my Avatar change.

On 04/05/2018 at 05:38, DAVIDC89 said:

My Vixen case

Are we having a Vixen love affair or do you have others too?

3 minutes ago, Lockie said:

Nice, Alan. I've never tried any of the Pentax EP's, but understand they are as good as Vixen SLV's only over a bigger 70 degrees ....sounds fun  

Far nicer in my opinion, better build quality, more comfortable and as you say wider by 20 degrees.
I have gone Japanese with Vixen LVW, Pentax and some Televue made in Japan.
Some Chinese, but that's now going due to eye relief and my changing eyes!

6 hours ago, solwisesteve said:

My mini-PC from China:

Diskless, i5, 8GB RAM, 240G SSD, Win10 Pro, 2.4/5GHz wifi, 1G LAN, lots of USB.... £250 delivered!

Updating windows as I'm typing. Then I'll get remote desktop working.

Install my astro. apps and then use it remotely for scope/imaging/control.

Very chuffed ?

Now that's a Mini PC!  Tee Hee.

In all seriousness, really, that's a fully functional PC?  Wow, these things are small. 

Post person Pat or Patricia has been and left a fine addition to my eyepiece case.

? ? Very Happy Bunny ? ?

Just wish I had not sold the 10mm to a fellow SGLer.

Of course it has arrived with a sky full of clouds after last night being clear but wobbly.
 

56 minutes ago, laudropb said:

Today I received a set of binoviewers. Now I only need some clear sky to see if I can get them to work. Be prepared for questions folks.

OH, very nice purchase, they should be a fine addition.
What is the scope or scopes they are to be used with from your collection?

Oh yes please, let’s have a Tak love in and show each part piece by piece. 

I think one of you should start at the front end and show each glass element one at a time ?

5 hours ago, Lockie said:

Flipping heck. you really like the Primaluce kit don't you! What's the logic behind having 4 if you don't mind me asking? You have a DL, on a Skytee so I'm guessing it's not flexure for imaging you're concerned with? 

I knew Richard was going to rather strongly mount that Tak; but wowzer!
How heavy is that Tak??
Shame its hanging on the top mount of a Skytee 2,
I would not hang a scope of that cost on one, I know others do, but.....

8 minutes ago, DRT said:

I had assumed the supplied T2 extension tube should be removed when fitting a diagonal but it should stay on. This configuration is in focus...

Yea gads, thats a f15 finder now 

Well, the good post person visited today and delivered a new family member, brand new and boxed.
Nice and far lighter than I expected although I had the specification and read 25585's write up about his version.
This is the second 2" eyepiece I have ever owned, had the 28mm Sky-Watcher with my ED100, thought that was big,
but no this is a little bigger and very nice build quality.
I even like the eye lens cover (cup) 25585!

Here it is with the rest of the family,
some further additions may be added as funds and availability allows.