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ollypenrice

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Hi All,

I've come across a couple of high end items for sale here in France, a 24 inch Pegaus mirror, top spec and reputedly perfect, with cell and accessories. Also a massive 10 Micron GM4000 mount, again hardly (if at all) used. The owner has decided not to persue the setting up of a place like mine (though on a rather more affluent scale!!) Neither item is cheap but both are expeptionally attractive and it was a painful decision for me to decide not to pounce. If anyone is interested please just PM me and I'll fill you in on the details. I only know the vendor through email correspondence but his English is excellent and he has made a very favourable impression on me, hence this post.

Olly

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This mount would carry a 60mm neutron star...

Olly

Just out of interest (and I'm showing my ignorance here) What would you need to mount on this that the gm2000 wouldn't handle? ok, I realise the 2000 is limited to 60kg (i think) but what set-up is going to be this big? or is there other factors to concider such as accuracy etc? (told ya I was ignorant :D).

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The owner had in mind a 24 inch Newtonian (hence the nice Pegasus mirror also for sale.)

Other options would be multiple scope rigs. This is coming in below the cost of a new Paramount ME or GM2000, by the way.

Olly

I did wonder if that was the case. shame he's not going ahead with it. I'd love to see that 

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The owner had in mind a 24 inch Newtonian (hence the nice Pegasus mirror also for sale.)

Other options would be multiple scope rigs. This is coming in below the cost of a new Paramount ME or GM2000, by the way.

Olly

Gina? She's been talking about long FL and multiple 'scopes.

I'd be tempted but I don't have either the experiance or location to do either justice.

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ollypenrice

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"Darling, that money we put aside to replace the car... I've spent it making sure the Earth doesn't wobble under my telescope."

Hmmm...  No...  I can't really see it going down well.

James

Wise up, man. Darling, unless I can find some way of stabilizing the Earth it really woudn't be a good idea to replace the car. Imaging a sudden terrestrial guiding error as we negotiating a narrow bridge...

Olly

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whats Fratio of the mirror ?

F5. This is the information I have;

  • 24" f/5 mirror from John Hall of Pegasus Optics. It comes with a wiffletree 18-point cell made by Nova-Z and an Antares flat rated at 1/30p-v. The primary has a Strehl better than 0.99 and 0.5 x RTA. It is 2" thick (must check this, could be 2.5"). Looking for 4500€ for the lot.
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Just out of interest (and I'm showing my ignorance here) What would you need to mount on this that the gm2000 wouldn't handle? ok, I realise the 2000 is limited to 60kg (i think) but what set-up is going to be this big? or is there other factors to concider such as accuracy etc? (told ya I was ignorant :D).

CDK 24"- 108Kg and 4 metres of focal length.

:shocked:

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