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What is your "someday" scope?

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ollypenrice

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The TEC 140 is the killer visual apo, I can confirm! Alas I don't know the bigger TECs. WHo does??

I'm an imager first and find the Takahashi Baby Q the most infallible optic I ever use... so I'd like five of them on a multi scope array. Five? Mais oui!!

L, R, G, B, Ha. Each has its own camera. FIve hours in an an hour. Yessss....

Olly

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Marki

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Mmmm...so many choices. I like the idea of a nice big mak - TAL250K (ok -I know its a Klev :D) or an Intes-Micro of similar size.

Otherwise a really big 'frac 6" to 8". Oh, and my own garden so I could build an observatory to use it in. I recently saw an advert for the Officina Stellare Hiper APO 152 - matched with one of their Avalon mounts - drool! More realistically, a large long focal length achromat like 6" f15 like the Classic II Peak2Valley make or the Istar thingy from Lyra.

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E621Keith

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The TEC 140 is the killer visual apo, I can confirm! Alas I don't know the bigger TECs. WHo does??

I'm an imager first and find the Takahashi Baby Q the most infallible optic I ever use... so I'd like five of them on a multi scope array. Five? Mais oui!!

L, R, G, B, Ha. Each has its own camera. FIve hours in an an hour. Yessss....

Olly

You mean like SuperWASP?

My someday scope is a 0.5m dob. Well that some day is still decades away.

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Grunthos

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...... So what scope do you dream about owning one day? .... I'm talking about something that it's not inconceivable, someday...

If I was pushed I choose the E-ELT.

Think of it as a rather sophisticated dobo (albeit with a 40m primary).

It's not inconceivable that one or two of us on these forums might get some research time on it "someday".

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E621Keith

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I recently saw an advert for the Officina Stellare Hiper APO 152 - matched with one of their Avalon mounts - drool!

That's pornography. I won't want a scope like that. I wouldn't be able to bare the thought of taking that out into the cold night and get dew all over it.

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Marki

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:D:D Made me laugh E621Keith!

I really should turn on the Parental Control features on my web-browser to stop me accidentally seeing that kind of content!

I know what you mean though, I wouldn't want to sully such a machine by putting it in a muddy field!

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You know, it might be wonderful to look through, but I don't like the colour scheme. If I were spending that sort of money I think it would have to be a nice white TMB or even the health service colours of Tak. :D

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I had 2 'someday' scopes, a 12" SW goto dob and a nice fast 100mm refractor for imaging. I have now given the imaging up, did a wee deal for my imaging kit with someone and now have my 12" goto dob, so I am a happy bunny!!

Eye pieces are now my 'someday' items, lol. (but dont tell the missus)

Gaz

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ollypenrice

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...or even the health service colours of Tak. :)

:D The perfect description! It has been bugging me for years, the presence of a vague association of some kind in the back of my mind. You have it. Taks have the 'hospital look.' In hospitals, I suppose, it is intended to dispel panic amongst patients being borne down upon by an assortment of cutting and grinding implements. With Takahashi we can only assume its role is to soothe the prospective buyer at first sight of the price; ...and this three inch telescope, Sir, is available for just three thousand five hundred pounds. Now that wasn't so bad, was it Sir?

Olly

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A 16 inch trusstube dobsonian is my someday scope. I've been given the green light for one from the other half, but that's all well when you have £0.00 in your account! :D

It will take literally years to save up for one.

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Marki

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:D The perfect description! It has been bugging me for years, the presence of a vague association of some kind in the back of my mind. You have it. Taks have the 'hospital look.' In hospitals, I suppose, it is intended to dispel panic amongst patients being borne down upon by an assortment of cutting and grinding implements. With Takahashi we can only assume its role is to soothe the prospective buyer at first sight of the price; ...and this three inch telescope, Sir, is available for just three thousand five hundred pounds. Now that wasn't so bad, was it Sir?

Olly

:):D:D

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stevetynant

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Fantasy Island wish list

House North of Brecon with huge garden and no neighbors

Moosive Dob with a case full of £600 lens that at the moment I have to have sneaky looks through from other peoples at star gazing nights and something auto guided on NEQ6 to take all those stunning photos of which I'm incredibly jealous of.

Realistic shortish term ambitions

12 Inch Dob - just big enough to get into car and transport - anything else wasted in light polluted garden.

Current status - unbeliveably happy with what I have for the foreseeable :0)

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michael.h.f.wilkinson

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I'd like to change my order please. I'd like this instead :):

U.K. Astronomy Buy & Sell

Will an AZ-4 be enough mount for it though :D :D

Might want to go for something a tad sturdier :). For imaging this is a beauty, of course. For deep sky observing even my humble C8 grabs more light, and a 20" dob trounces it. So if you want to go the APO route, and have the aperture, why not try this one

APM Apo 510/6500 CNC

Last price I heard it was 830,000 Euro for the OTA, and another 500,000 (ish) euro for the EQ mount. If you can afford that, you can afford your own mountain top, or Antonov 224 (or 124 at a pinch) to transport it :(

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John

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... So if you want to go the APO route, and have the aperture, why not try this one

APM Apo 510/6500 CNC

Last price I heard it was 830,000 Euro for the OTA, and another 500,000 (ish) euro for the EQ mount. If you can afford that, you can afford your own mountain top, or Antonov 224 (or 124 at a pinch) to transport it :)

Hmmm ...... a 20" apochromat. Trouble is somebody will come along with a 24" dob which cost 100x less and beat it on deep sky objects :D

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