Ultimate home telescope?

[Spec-Chum]

A little something to pass the time whilst the white fluffy things are still a bane to us!

If, within reason (we'll say £30k) money was not a limiting factor what would your ultimate home setup be?

It must all be available to order now (no custom stuff) and be suitable for set up at home, so no dome observatory in the middle of nowhere lol

I really don't know enough to list my actual setup but I'd be really interested to see other people's dream scope setup, just incase I win the lottery

[Moonshane]

Assuming we have to stay in the house we are in (and suffer the LP I do!), I pretty much have my dream scope which is a 16" f4 solid tube dob. I'd like a few more eyepieces of course but I'll never get into imaging so I think what I have is good enough.

I'd add the following :

Really nice solar scope - one of the Lunt ones - about £2k

A few more Televue eyepieces - 31mm Nagler, 17mm Ethos, 24mm Panoptic, 16mm Nagler - £2k

A couple of really nice filters - Astronomik Hb, UHC and Oiii maybe £500

then put the rest in the bank and have a few holidays with my travel scope / family!

[Earl]

£30k might just squeeze it.

2 x Mesu 200

6 x fsq85

6 x atik 4000

and a very very long holiday at Ollys place

actually 30k wont come close

that is around 45k without reducers filters guides computers adapters, adapters and adapters.......

[Moonshane]

blimey, I am glad I am not into imaging!

[Earl]

blimey, I am glad I am not into imaging!

Please dont PM my wife with the replacement cost of my rig... I need to sit down a while LOL

[Spec-Chum]

I'd love to get into imaging...

Until I saw Earl's post lol

I'll have to go with me slowing pushing my dob and my phone's 5MP camera into the EP. Bliss!

[Earl]

In in reality the Ultimate Telescope is the one you use the most and get the most pleasure from, be this a £100 scope or a Multi thousand monster.

[Moonshane]

Please dont PM my wife with the replacement cost of my rig... I need to sit down a while LOL

just point out that a divorce would cost a LOT more than your rig?

[Spec-Chum]

just point out that a divorce would cost a LOT more than your rig?

but what if she wants his rig as settlement?

[Moonshane]

LOL

[nightfisher]

For me it would have to be an Istar lens in a peak to valley f12 refractor maybe 150mm objective, on a very sturdy pier

[stephenwilliamwatts]

Would not change the scope.......just move home to somewhere with no light pollution!!!

[HIP3802]

Ultimate home telescope? That has to be the next one!! In my case that's a Coronado Solarmax II - a cracking solar scope.

[swamp thing]

For me it would still be this little beauty:

http://www.websterte.../C32_DETAIL.htm

I don't observe from home, so it would be my travel scope. It would fit nicely in my overland camper.

[LukeSkywatcher]

I already have my ultimate home telescope (8SE). The only way i could improve it is to house it in one of those nice fancy domes you can buy online for about 2K.

The dome would be in my garden, so i am within the rules of this thread.

[cantab]

Considering the LP where I live, I think I'd put the scope in a van with a roll-off roof, so I could drive out to dark skies to observe. (And it CAN be used when the van's parked on front of the house, so it counts!)

[Kevdan]

For 30k you could get a second hand ridgid lorry with outriggers so no roll as you walk on the back and still have money to spend on a decent scope and pier mount it.

Kev.

[brantuk]

Plane Wave on Paramount for me - something like this :

http://www.planewave.com/index.php?page=1&id0=1&id=1

[Mike73]

Ultimate home telescope for me?

Its got to be one of these http://www.obsessiontelescopes.com/telescopes/18UC/index.php

[Marki]

If I could, I'd go classical and have a Skylight 6" F15 on a solid pier (or something like it with with an 8" objective). Or for some bling and a bit flashier (but maybe not any better) an Officina Stellare Hiper 152 on an ASA DDM direct drive mount.

Actually, I;d just settle for a couple of clear nights .

[Brian Nordstrom]

For me it would be a TEC180 Triplet APO at around 12k and that would leave 18k for my observatory ,, nice dream .

I would not need any eyepieces as the ones I have now would do nicely .

Dreams are free ....

Brian.

[Sam]

I'd go for a 20" or 25" Dob - or whatever size I could get for the 30K. That would be fantastic here, no LP to worry about (except when the moon is out!).

[Rob Randall]

With the amount of cloud we get in the west of scotland it would have to be a radio telescope.

Rob.

[Brian Nordstrom]

I'd go for a 20" or 25" Dob - or whatever size I could get for the 30K. That would be fantastic here, no LP to worry about (except when the moon is out!).

Sam the Wairarapa New Zealand ,,, Woaw mate ! .. was born in Martinbourough .

I have o house i Naples St .

Small world , and yes dark skies down there .,, woaw .

Brian.

[laser_jock99]

Mmmm £30K - expensive equipment is all very well, but it's no substitute for dark skies. With a £30K windfall I'd be thinking about moving house or holidays to darker areas? You could buy a country house in Bulgaria for that.