Frenchastro

On 13/09/2023 at 05:49, Piero said:

Mes favoris d'après ce que j'ai essayé :

- médecin

- Zoom Zeiss d-vario 20-75x (à f6, pas à f4)

- Vixen HR 2,4 mm (avait également 3,4 mm et 2,0 mm)

- Vixen SLV 5mm (avait aussi 9mm)

- Delos 6 (a/avait également 12 mm, 8 mm, 4,5 mm)

-N22T4

- N9T6 (a également/avait 2x 13 mm et 2x 7 mm)

- 24 Pan (avait également 35 mm)

- APM XWA 7 mm (a/avait également 20 mm de marque Lunt, 9 mm et 4,77 mm)

- 30 mm APM UFF

 

J’en ai essayé beaucoup d’autres bien sûr, mais ce sont/étaient ceux que j’appellerais les meilleurs que j’ai essayés.

No Takahashi ?

No nikon ?

🫣😩🤷

Thank you very much zermelo 👍 It's a good policy I think

CS

rikh 

Hello everybody, speaking of that, there was a time here on SGL where it was a market lounge. Has he disappeared? I can't find it anymore. At the time I much preferred it to ABS. Please excuse my ignorance and if this is off topic. Rikh 

I didn't meet anyone who asked me to, i continued on my way 😅 ...Anyway, it's an instrument that my best English friend lent me to have fun with 🤷😉.

2 hours ago, Louis D said:

 

If you paid UK VAT, shouldn't your friend be able to get his Japan VAT refunded as a reseller?

That's where the problem is. My seller as a Japanese individual buyer in his country (not professional buyer or seller) paid the japanese VAT. Myself as a buyer I pay French VAT (I'm From France) and import taxes.

The same applies when I buy any item outside the European Union (on Astromart or ABS for example). And this even if my seller has already paid his vat in his country of residence. For example, when I was looking for a TSA102, one appeared for sale not far from London. It was much cheaper for me to take the eurostar between Paris and London,  go in the morning and return in the evening, rather than paying shipping and taxes.

In the present case, of course my japanese Friend sold me his Eyepieces at 1/3 of their purchase value. Because he's a friend, because he has used them, they were already unpacked, second hand sell between friends 😉

Yes this applies (VAT 20, Import 4,2...) and yes the Price is all included.

They were knew when my friend bought them, but it turned out that they are not suitable for him, so technically speaking, I bought these eyepieces from the second hand market, with a price fixed freely between two people 😉...

''We still have this freedom to be able to freely buy the desired quantity of any product, to be mistaken about our choice, to resell it to whoever we want, where we want, at the price we want'' - Article number 1 of the Astronomical Trade Charter 😅

I have the chance to observe without glasses. At first sight, on the 25 and 18 it seems to go on. For the 12.5 the ER  is reduced and when you stick the eye you have a little tunnel effect, as usual on the plossl, below 12,5 it's gone starting to get short...Hence the barlow. 

What was essential for me was that I am lucky to have been able to import them from Japan thanks to a friend. They came back to me at 164 € (around £141) all taxes included. In this hobby i quickly understood that it was necessary to have friends all over the world. I send Chablis and Camembert and they send me Takahashi 😅

CS 

On 30/07/2023 at 11:02, John said:

Given the weather we have had in the UK lately, practical testing of eyepieces under the stars is getting rather hard to carry out. I have a couple of very interesting eyepieces on loan currently and but it is clearly going to be a long time until I get enough practical experience with them under my belt to write anything meaningful about them on SGL 🤔

So true, same here in Paris, a weather to embark on the study of frogs and snails. Adding to the August holidays, my serious observations will not take place before September. I plan to use them in bino at f15 (foa), and on a turret with the abbe, LE and clavé. We'll see.

Netflix's shocking new series 🤠

LA CASA DE TPL 🤣...

il y a 5 minutes, Jean a dit :

C'est étrange. L'oculaire est assez bas dans la "pile bancaire" de Richard Suiters de facteurs qui ont un impact sur la qualité de la vue que nous obtenons et pourtant la section oculaire des forums est souvent l'une des plus concernées  🙄

 

 

Fetishism, also known as the Gollum syndrome 🤣

Officially or unofficially ? 🫣😅 

1/Rule number 1, never leave a trace on social networks or forums 

2/ Rule number 2, always deny 

On 03/07/2023 at 22:26, Adam_Wade said:

Does anyone here have a case or bag recommendations for this mount and/or the tripod (Berlebach Planet)?

 

Hi Adam, About me I use a wheeled bag, the tenba cineluxe 21. Everything fits inside: the mount, the dovetails, 12v talent cell, pier riser, pier adapter, Nexus, handle etc...here are some photos if you want to have an Idea. For the berlebach i use the berlebach bag, it fulfills its role well. Note that you can fit inside the two pier riser, the 12,5mm directly mounted and the 20mm between the legs.

CS

1 hour ago, Don Pensack said:

Presque toutes les gammes d'oculaires planétaires spécialisés vont et viennent.

Rares sont ceux qui veulent avoir 2 paires d'oculaires et/ou ne voir que les planètes.

Et parce qu'il n'y a pas d'« économie d'échelle », ils sont généralement coûteux.

Donc, mon conseil est que lorsqu'une ligne qui reçoit des éloges est disponible, achetez-la.

it's so true !

The TOE will undoubtedly follow the path of Tak Le and TAO.

Hr, toe, LE...finaly i choose something else....i choose not to choose 🤦

2 hours ago, Franklin said:

I received my new to me HR 3.4

by chance didn't you receive it from paris 🤔🫣?