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[spaceboy]

Talk about trades descriptions act, this guy blew it out the water Helios 12" reflector telescope on eBay (end time 17-Jun-11 16:53:06 BST)

[Pete Presland]

6" at the most

[brantuk]

Yup - no more than 6" - I just asked a question for the devilment of it hehe

[barkis]

The mount and tripod look a tad flimsy to support a 12 OTA.

I've emailed the seller to verify if it is a 12" scope.

Ron.

[PortableAstronomer]

Probably is 120mm ; the seller then 'confused' measurements with inches , looked at a range of other scopes going 6 inch, 8 inch, 10 inch, 12 inch.,..... ah "12..." something that rings a bell. It must be a 12 inch scope then....

They should do a Sunday night entertainment show on the TV, taking the mickey out of the pick of the best in entertaining fleabay adverts.

[Adamski]

The mount and tripod look too small for it.

[Telrad]

6" at the most

Probably is Pete

Yup - no more than 6" - I just asked a question for the devilment of it hehe

Yes, it's likely to be a 6" - 8" judging by the pic. Let us know what reply he gives Kim..?

[John]

I'd give him the benefit of an 8" which was the largest aperture newt that was marketed under the "Helios" brand as I recall. I'm saying that because it looks a bit like a 2" focuser which the 6" ones did not have. Definately not a 12" and definately very undermounted.

He has possibly measured the tube diameter and "rounded up". Someone had a Bresser 5" refractor on there a few days ago that had done the same thing - I dropped them an e.mail and they revised it to 102mm - still with a £300 "buy it now" though !.

[spaceboy]

Did Helios sell the 200mm on an EQ3 I find my EQ5 is only just upto the task so I dread to think what an EQ3 would be like.

[spaceboy]

Hang on....... How many counter weights dose a 150mm use ? I think this could well be a 130mm ???

[Si W]

Forget 6ins , it looks more like 4.5ins to me...

[Parus major]

That's an EQ3 so going by the length of the RA axis then the telescope is an 200mm. The 50mm finder also gives the game away.

I know someone who has the motorised Eq3 150 model and this is clearly bigger.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Still, if he has a 25 pounds reserve, he is not over-asking, price-wise.

[PortableAstronomer]

I still reckon it's 120mm... :-)

[Earl]

I don't think that's an EQ3 it looks more like an EQ2, its a 6" tops.

humm Wrong weight for an eq2, could be a 3, hard to tell.

[CGolder]

Thats certainly an old type eq3-2, the tube does loook very big for mount. I think it looks like a 200mm like others have said.

I do doubt that a 200mm could take a single wieght... i suspect it is not balanced

[swamp thing]

I reckon it's 120mm... :-)

I reckon you're right.

Got his inches and centigrators mixed up.

Steve

[Parus major]

It's a 200 on an EQ3. Her's a 114 on an EQ2...

Different beast.

[Parus major]

Actually, he's updated the listing so it's settled.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Actually, he's updated the listing so it's settled.

Just goes to show: never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to ignorance.

[Parus major]

Indeed so!

Also, couldn't help noticing that the guys with the big stuff in their sigs tended to undersize it and the guys with the smaller stuff tended not to.

[Tim]

Just when we were starting to attract more female members to the hobby, THIS thread happened.............

Read it back guys, it sounds SOOO geeky.

[brantuk]

Just had email back from him apologising - the plate states D=200mm so he's changed the advert - he was indeed confused over mm and inches

[Telrad]

Just when we were starting to attract more female members to the hobby, THIS thread happened.............

Read it back guys, it sounds SOOO geeky.

I thought the size debate would probably attract more females?

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just when we were starting to attract more female members to the hobby, THIS thread happened.............

Read it back guys, it sounds SOOO geeky.

And it is a man thing to worry about size (and overestimating it)