If money were no object.....

[Dreadz]

The mildly annoying ad for the euromillions just started my imagination rolling and innevitably I quickly ended up on what scopes would I buy if I won (if only).

So, if you woke up this Saturday more than £100million richer what would you be purchasing for yr dream obsy?

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[red dwalf]

a mountain to get high enough to clear these clouds

[Pig]

I would buy ay least one of these  

[sologuitarist61]

I would buy ay least one of these  

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What? The girl? The Telescope? Or the lottery ticket?   Uuummmm - I think I have made my decision!

[sologuitarist61]

If I were younger I think I would go the bespoke route and build (get built/) a large telescope a metre of so across - however in this country I doubt it would get much use and would no doubt be termed a 'folly'! Nice thought though

[Alien 13]

An astrotrac and some nice canon glass.

Alan

[trazor]

I would be purchasing a new plot of land.
Somewhere in the World, with a very very dark sky...........

[DazC]

A new house on the top of a hill with a big garden for a big obsy.

D.C

[Zakalwe]

Nothing too extravagant to be honest. A nice wee house somewhere in the south of Spain or on Tenerife. A Planewave 20" on a Paramount would do the deep sky stuff and a 152 Lunt for the solar stuff. Though you could always go bananas and buy one of these:

(the solarscope, not the bloke!)

[David Smith]

Move somewhere dark and clear, Arizona maybe.

[Schorhr]

Litescope 16" with cell mirror

[laser_jock99]

I think I would go for a dark sky site in the Southern Hemisphere or at least closer to the Tropics - that way you'd get a nice climate and a bunch of new objects to look at. Scope wise- probably want to run multiple rigs from wide angle to planetary.  

[Moonshane]

I might not move permanently from the UK but I'd be having other houses for sure, stocked with lots of wine and scopes. I'd be after perhaps a custom made f3.5 25" truss dob, with feathertouch/sips focuser and a tracking/goto system in an Obs. Plus a large Ha scop and white light option.

[JB80]

We'd have at least one house in the French Alps, one in Australia somewhere and one or two in a couple of places like Crete &Hawaii. They'd all have a permanent obs with maybe a C14 automated to search for supernovas and/or comets. I'd likely have a scope or two of similar calibre for observing and planetary imaging and each obs will be equipped with a monster solar set up too.

I'd also like a monkey.

[DazC]

Nothing too extravagant to be honest. A nice wee house somewhere in the south of Spain or on Tenerife. A Planewave 20" on a Paramount would do the deep sky stuff and a 152 Lunt for the solar stuff. Though you could always go bananas and buy one of these:

(the solarscope, not the bloke!)

Is he one of the borrowers?

Big scope, big door....and look at the size of the office chance he's perched on!!

D.C

[Myopicus]

Is he one of the borrowers?

Big scope, big door....and look at the size of the office chance he's perched on!!

D.C

He's definitely compensating for something . . . and he's not bald. 

[Zakalwe]

Is he one of the borrowers?

Big scope, big door....and look at the size of the office chance he's perched on!!

D.C

LOL.

I think that it's an optical illusion. That's an industrial roller shutter door, so it could 3 or 4 metres across. And thats a 230mm refractor, which is a BIG solarscope:

[Knight of Clear Skies]

£100 million? It's not just the kit, you need the expertise too. I'd have some of the top amateur astronomers kidnapped and shipped to my volcano-summit observatory/lair.

[Laurie61]

I was reading in the S@N mag that there are a lot of old professional observatories closing, La Silla Observatory in Chile has five domes empty at the moment. Maybe one of those could be acquired   But in reality I guess an observatory built at a dark site in Wales with comfortable accommodation would do me. As for scopes I quite fancy an 8 or 10" binocular telescope for visual and a good scope video camera combo for live deep sky viewing 

[Beulah]

House in dark, remote location with 1/2 - 1 acre of land, 4x4 and a bit to live off.

This is a dream that may not ever become a reality in my lifetime, with the wages these days...well done to all those who have achieved that dream.

I'd give the remaining £98 million to my favourite charity.

[Luke]

I think I would show restraint (!) and get a Corondao PST, a Lunt 60mm CaK scope, an EQ6 alt az, a Tec 140, a Solarscope SF100 etalon, a 76mm Tele Vue and an Edge HD 9.25. That would do very nicely

[L8-Nite]

£100 Million     

Yeah, I think I would order a few hundred Questars, and give them out to nice people here on SGL.  

[nightfisher]

£100 million,

i would buy a larger family house, also a nice static caravan in a dark area in north Wales and get a good size dob to keep at said caravan plus i would get a nice Apo but dont know which one, some thing around 130 to 150mm

[ScottS]

I'd have some of the top amateur astronomers kidnapped and shipped to my volcano-summit observatory/lair.

Very Bond villain-esque

[Beulah]

£100 million,

i would buy a larger family house, also a nice static caravan in a dark area in north Wales and get a good size dob to keep at said caravan plus i would get a nice Apo but dont know which one, some thing around 130 to 150mm

I am stunned at how expensive statics are these days.