Alan White

I do the same for the same reasons and also same about the Scopes n Stuff fitting as well, if only a UK supplier held them @FLO

An Ethos Mr S , a new direction for you If memory serves me well, which often does not. What scope/s is this intended for may I ask?

For the Penguin if memory serves me correctly, the Mother Superior at the Childrens Home.

Nice arrival, very nice indeed, but I am a biased Vixen fan.

Welcome and Binoculars are a great way to start or even only astronomise. My used piece of kit is a pair of Binoculars 10 x50, in my case. You do have scopes and lot of other well loved and used kit, its a slippery slope this hobby. Anyway, welcome, ask questions, however silly you feel, we have all been new in the hobbya and we are all still learning. sharing information and techniques is one of the pleasures of the hobby.

Ok, not the last post, perhaps an AZ 75 owners thread is exactly what’s needed as asked…..

Good to see folks posting that the AZ75 are arriving and they like them so far, a relief after all the testing that went on. I am still using the test one set on my pier and it’s rock solid and still working flawlessly, you just use it and get on observing, which is what you want from a quality mount after all. I will make this my last post on the thread as it’s no longer about a mount in testing. Wishing every new owner of AZ75 lots of enjoyable and hassle free observing……makes all the testing and feed back worth while. I have really enjoyed the process and working with Rowan. Signing off now Alan.

Progress all round, great result on the lighting, you have a wonderful council team in your area.

@Zermelo you are on an auction site roll I have always felt the same on a SQL Meter, like you at the right price and right time, you never know. Be interesting to see how the maps and your reading differ, perhaps an idea for a thread.

I saw that one come up on the auction site, Looks very alike to the APM excepting the shiney bits and the green finish, should be good, saving grace is that you will use it in the dark so be unable to see the green 🤣

In my old 10" I used the following and all were great. No coma corrector etc either. APM UFF 30mm, really good to edge, super throughput and colour. Morpheus 17.5mm as above Pentax XW10mm as above Pentax XW7mm as above None of them cheap, all super in the OOUK 10 that I used to own, work well in most scopes, have kept all except the 17.5

Looks great and glad you like it so far, it's a very nice mount. The Nexus II looks very neat fitted.

Don’t be overwhelmed, projects always meet a point like this for most of us. Looking great so far. It’s not a 100m sprint, it’s a Marathon and slow and steady as you go.

Yes, I have directly compared and now only own the XW, but let me explain why; DeLites are very good, very clear and (pun intended) delightful in use, but with two issues for me, Deeper angled undercuts, which snag on the televue diagonal I own. The eye cup twist and slide design sometimes moves when locked. Not an issue but it’s 60 degrees field. A big plus it’s lighter than the Pentax. The XW’s I have owned a number on and off, changed mainly as I wanted smaller and lighter and like to only own one set of eyepieces, not a set for each scope, which in all honesty is best if you can afford to do so. XW are very good, very clear and a pleasure to use, with one issue for me, The range has a gap of a 12mm and a 6mm, which can only be filled by other makes, however that gap is not really an issue in use at all! The XW have undercuts, far smaller, shallower and do not snag on the TeleVue diagonal. 70 degrees field and somehow feel stunning to look through. I recently sold some XW and down sized to DeLites, very quickly I realised for me that it was a mistake and at a cost rectified it very quickly, so now back to some XW’s, the one XW I flat refused to sell was telling at the 1Omm. My set is for my one scope, a Vixen ED103 f7.8, but they were used in a 10” oouk f4.9 scope before and were all excellent. APM UFF 30, Vixen 22 LVW, XW 10, 7, 5 , TeleVue Nagler 3-6 zoom. All I would say is all more premium eyepieces mainly differ in ergonomics, field of view and how they handle for you, rather than in what they show to the eye.

Thanks all for the information, this means I need the 2x to get focus with the scope. So I can now work out the magnifications being used, I hope.

Council folks can often pull out the stops and be most helpful, it's how you ask and how well you make the issue understandable. 10/10 to Durham Council.

I have my observing area, with a fixed pier, works well. Mount under a cover and ready to go for visual in moments, just carry out a scope and eyepieces. I ponder a push away so the scope can sit out, but it would onky save a minute or two, only advantage is the scope is aclimatised straight off or near enough. But with a doublet refractor at 103mm not reasone enough to do the build, but a bigger scope or reflector, things would differ for me. Whatever you do, it will or should make things easier to observe, so if you can go for it my friend.

The AZ75 base has removable outer screws, these can have none fitted, or be moved into two locations giving two different diameters for varied tripods. This is something Rowan discussed with me at my factory visit. Quite clever. So remove the screws and its flat and will fit anything in my opinion, as long as it has no north pin fitted.

It does beg the question, 'What were you doing on the Roof Nigella?' I am sure someone in the know will be along soon and make sensible comment.

Welcome to SGL Home of a friendly welcome and lots of friendly advice when saught. No silly questions exist, we all start with a thirst for answers, so ask away and someone will be along, with in the main sensible answers mixed with light humour.

Roger Perhaps 2x Dust Bunnies... top LHS much more fain than lower one. Thanks for sharing the image as stuck at a PC 'working', this is a coffe break, honest guv.

Jeremy @great_bear Thank you. Could you please measure the legths for me, as I am unsure that both my ones are WO, One certainly is, but I am unsure. Your help would be very much appreciated and informative for other looking at this thread in time to come.

Good old Sol, just keeps giving, makes looking so enjoyable. Thanks for the share of th eimage Paul, sadly no Solar images from me yet until the roof is finished, too much dust about from the roofers.

How about a 120mm visual scope in the future perhaps? Clearly no need for a FLO response on this.

I must add how nicely the AZ75 mount sits on the pier, solid as a rock. This is the testing mount that Rowan have kindly left with me for a while after testing has been completed. If you want to see my thoughts etc and @Stu we both were testers and have threads in the mount section.