MNJay

For my first post, why don't I share my beloved refractors? Two of them, anyway... Takahashi FC-76DC f/7.5 mounted next to my APM/TMB/LZOS 105/650 f/6.2 on the Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G. In the FC-76DC is a FeatherTouch FTF2025BCR with a Baader 1.25" Zeiss BBHS prism diagonal and a TeleVue 24mm Panoptic, and in the TMB105 is a FTF2020BCR with a Baader 2" BBHS Sitall mirror diagonal and a TeleVue 13mm Ethos. I'm dying to get this setup out to a dark site! It's already late June and weather plus work means I haven't gotten out to my club's Bortle 3 site since November!!! ? I got one night with the TMB105 under Bortle 5-6 with terrible transparency and nearly a full moon. It was just about as bad as my typical Bortle 8 skies at home. But soon I hope to get out. Soon....... until then, it's Saturn from my balcony.