Ding Dong!!

[Rebus]

Wow!

I think 'Mrs Rebus' might have something to say about me purchasing that . . .

[kev]

When I was in Letchworth, and dating my now wife, I showed her and her dad Jupiter etc through that scope. <grin> he became so absorbed that we didnt realise the time, and when we came in he was freezing cold and turning gently blue!

Still, she forgave me and married me.

[laser_jock99]

I agree that it's hardly a huge amount of money for all the components.

I imagine the problem from the point of view of selling it is that these days relatively few houses actually have a garden big enough to house it and an observatory large enough for it. I suspect the set of people who satisfy the criteria:

a) interested in astronomy

have space for it

c) want an EQ-mounted telescope this big

d) have an obsy big enough, or somewhere to store it whilst they build one

e) have the spare cash to buy it, plus the cost of the obsy if required

f) have the means to move it

g) won't have to face a divorce as a result of buying it

is quite small.

James

I'm okay on points a-f only!

[malc-c]

Met up with Kev on Wednesday and he pointed this out to me... God I remember him commissioning Phil Stone to build it. To be honest you would expect to pay over that asking price for the mirror set alone... This is one serious bit of kit and it shows just how well these were put together... 20 years on and it still looks as good as the day Phil and his team installed it.... If only my observatory was bigger and I had a few grand going spare.

[BUSMANMARK]

wow i wish i had somewhere to put it.............

[foundaplanet]

75 minutes left and still no bids. Will be interesting to watch.

What a fine thing it is...

[foundaplanet]

Someone has got themselves a good set up..

[kev]

Here you go, when it was new in my back garden down south many years ago.

[lguise]

Kev,

Now I can see how the guidescope was mounted! The new owner has a great piece of kit. I will ask him if he is an SGL member.

All the best,

Linton

[kev]

Do me a favour and let me know who it is, and also kindly give him my email address. Id just like to know where it goes through time.

[MjrTom]

Wow thats some impressive kit, someone is going to have fun

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Wow thats some impressive kit, someone is going to have fun

Not in this cloud we have here . Not that I have it. A Nagler 12T4 is quite a cloud magnet. Just imagine the clouds attracted to this scope

[Frank the Troll]

That should make someone very happy, lucky sod lol