Open Heart Surgery on a Mewlon M250!!!

[Darth Takahashi]

I Have only just returned from Japan with some nice upgrades for my Mewlon M250, you can read more information her at my blog.

Essentially, I have fitted a new baffle tube with corrector lenses inside which completely remove all traces of coma, delivering 4 micro stars across a 40mm field of view and 35mm with the reducer fitted.

More important to me is the fact that it brings my F number dwon from F12 to F10 and F7 with the reducer. This is much more manageable in the Netherlands where the conditions are, well never really good enough to use this telescope.

Everything was successful and you can see an image of Jupiter taken on the 17/10/2012 in the planetary section of this website.

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[moriniboy]

Nice upgrades, sometimes I enjoy working on my scopes just as much as looking through them

[Mark at Beaufort]

Neil that looks an interesting modification and I think your Jupiter images look 'spot on'

I look forward to seeing more images over the coming months especially if the sky is kind to you in the Netherlands.

Mark

[NickK]

Yikes.. and pulling apart the Pentax to resolve an internal issue was bowel-loosening enough.

Not tempted to bring the Mewlon to SGL8?