stuy

Well my take is I’ve used serious quality scopes ranging from high end 12” newtons , 11.5 mak cass , 10”mak newt 

And now a 9” apo ! All of them once cooled and collimated  blew me away under fantastic seeing ! So I would say bang for buck is a newton maybe 10”/12/“ F6 .

As I’ve got older I really love the HD effect the refractor gives and thus it’s my goto scope permanently mounted in a obsy ready to go . But honestly any good quality scope of all configurations will blow you away when the seeing allows 

just it’s just so rare in the Uk these night’s people question their scopes , but in reality they are good 

Hi all is it me or has the last 6 months been the worse I can remember, constantly raining or cloud ! We’ve all invested seriously large sums of money and I do sometimes question my sanity! On what we do but one good clear night with really good seeing and we seem to forget the months of frustration. I can see people coming out of the hobby in the Uk due to the weather here it’s a sad fact .

i 

On 19/01/2024 at 15:17, F15Rules said:

I feel that a top quality 5" class refractor of F8 to F10 is visual stargazing Nirvana, for versatility, image quality, and all round manageability..and it should ideally be white!

They don't come much better looking than yours, John, lovely looking scope😊.

I dont know if there is much difference in performance between the Lzos F6 and F9.2 models, but to look at (and probably through?) I'd take the F9.2 version every time🤭.

Dave

Fantastic scope 

On 04/08/2023 at 21:04, badhex said:

Indeed. However, I did read somewhere on CN I think, that Markus suggested that there were still possibilities of purchasing lens assemblies in order to continue building LZOS based APM scopes. I remain sceptical.

Correct 👍

Fantastic image mate 👍👌

On 15/10/2023 at 08:05, mistuk said:

Was very pleased to get this image last night. First time using my new kit

Nice what set up ?

Looks great I made the mistake of forgetting that I got married 19 years ago this weekend 😳so sadly won’t make weather looks great for you all I just snook into observatory Jupiter was majestic!!! Enjoy all

Hopefully will pop up it’s our anniversary weekend 🙄weather looks very good too. !!!!!!!!

36 minutes ago, Mandy D said:

I was just drooling over the Skywatcher 190MN and am seriously tempted to get one for AP. What size is your MN?

It’s a  intes micro 10” f5.5 

10 minutes ago, John said:

I wonder what the largest aperture apo refractor in private hands in the UK is ?

@stuy's must be right up there - it's magnificent 😁

As far  as I know there isn’t another 9” lzos here may be wrong , a few 8”

tho I think, it really is a pleasure to use planetary view in good seeing is quite extraordinary the contrast is incredible especially in the binoviewer! It’s a lump that’s for sure ! But stays in observatory but the mak newt is portable just!!

I’ve found my  drool worthy scope 9” lzos  apo and the 10” maknewt ain’t bad e

I had some of the best seeing early morning today giving breathtaking views of the both Jupiter and Saturn with wind speeds of 31/ms at 9000m. I don’t expect much but how wrong was I ! Saturn showing C ring really well a difficult part of the ring at times also  SPR  showing a bluish tinge , equatorial regions showing lovely individual bands of various intensity,

jupiter was a joy to behold stock steady at 400x lovely festoon  in NEB and a very small oval in SSTB only complaint was the transparency was around 6-7/10 but seeing was 9+ /10  that bit of lacking transparency was robbing me of the EZ structure I’ve seen before with this scope just goes to show make the use of each clear night , the seeing in the UK can be like a lottery at times but when you get these special nights it makes it worth it scope 9” f9 lzos APO  with zeiss binoviewer and various zeiss and takahashi eyepieces 

Let’s hope for some clear skies something lacking at the moment in wales !!!!

I’m going to try and get to this possibly bring a scope too , just for one night be good to meet a few people cheers stu 

228 F9 lzos big heavy and long but visually stunning!! 

I have now for me found  the perfect scope  a 9” f9 lzos  jaw dropping good 

On 26/02/2023 at 11:45, wimvb said:

I'm a bit of a MakNewt fan, so an 8" or 10" Intes Micro would be nice to have ...

 

Looks familiar 😊🤔

3 hours ago, matija said:

@stuyUnfortunately Andreads passed away recently

 

How sad I’ve delt with him a few times over the years lovely man my thoughts are with his family 

Contact Andrea’s dan at Gemini telescope ive this mount to its superb , he will send you the pulsar user manual 

Quality 👌

Lovely image mate ,you just need THAT night of great seeing it will come and when it does  😳😳👌

Superb mate 👏

Yes a lovely transit sadly the seeing is as around 5/10  as stated booking with a tail end of the jet stream playing havoc ! Nice to see the yellowish disc against the planet some nice fleeting glances of 3 ovals too 

Fantastic Neil Lovely!! Some superb seeing seeing too 

Fantastic Neil