Show Us Your Dob.....

[Moonshane]

very elegant.

[John]

.... I will certainly help your fever...........get worse     

Yep, a few hours with "Dr Swamp" will see you sorted. You then start eyeing up your current dob and wondering if would make a decent finder for the next one .................

[Tomjo59]

My Dob kit, on equatorial tracking platform.

[Stout Porter]

My turn...

250P with various mods and accessories. Raised telrad, RACI Finder, lazy susan, setting circle, wixey, auto-focuser, OTA carry handles. 

[DRT]

Very nice! Definitely a candidate for "Pimp My Dob"

Where did you buy the carry handles?

[Stout Porter]

Thanks 

I got the handles from eBay for £5 each. Searching for Rolson carry straps should find them, they're a godsend. 

[Lorne]

On 30/12/2015 at 10:21, ilya_astronom said:

AstroAdam, nice to hear about it. By the way, I have visited your web-site and figured out that I had read your review about the scope. Thanks for the review and it helped me a lot in my decision "buy or not to buy"

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Me too... helped my decision in choosing my new scope!

[DRT]

5 hours ago, Stout Porter said:

Thanks 

I got the handles from eBay for £5 each. Searching for Rolson carry straps should find them, they're a godsend. 

Unfortunately they are about a foot too short for my 16" dob

[swamp thing]

1 hour ago, DRT said:

Unfortunately they are about a foot too short for my 16" dob

Wheelbarrow handles buddy  

No sense in struggling.  

[Demon Barber]

Hello All pay a visit to IKEA kitchen dept a good selection of cabinet handles easily modded to fit and long versions,very reasonable prices.

Regards

Mike

[Stu]

I know it's not a dob, but I don't want to start a 'show us you Portaball' thread!

Recently acquired, lovely views at SGL11 with it and highly transportable.

 

[cotterless45]

It's a superb bit of kit, I enjoyed the view of Jupiter . I asked Shane what a good DIY globe Dob base would be. The only thing that came up was a crash helmet, XXXL !

Nick.

[John]

Thats v.nice Stu - whats the aperture ?

 

[Stu]

4 minutes ago, John said:

Thats v.nice Stu - whats the aperture ?

 

It's an 8" Zambutto mirror John, f5.5, although when you look into the 'ball' it looks tiny! The secondary is nice and small at 40mm and the curved vanes spider gets rid of the spikes. There's plenty of contrast and very little light scatter around the planets.

 

[Mark at Beaufort]

Yes Stu I thought that was a great bit of kit when I viewed it last week at SGLX1. My only regret I was not around on Sunday for the clear skies. Good to see you again.

[mapstar]

Lovely bit of kit Stu 

[Stu]

1 hour ago, Mark at Beaufort said:

Yes Stu I thought that was a great bit of kit when I viewed it last week at SGLX1. My only regret I was not around on Sunday for the clear skies. Good to see you again.

Thanks Mark. Likewise, all too brief but great to have a chat and catch up

[YKSE]

Lovely looking scope, Stu. Is there any strengthening behind the focuser mounting plate?

To my engineering fixated eyes, the focuser plate will be most strained when viewing near zenith, a plate without strengthening looks a bit weak when using heavy EPs. Viewing targets away from zenith shouldn't have any issue.

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[niallk]

What a beaut - congrats Stu

I like the idea of a motorbike helmet - flicking up the visor for boundary scrubbing

[Stu]

9 minutes ago, niallk said:

What a beaut - congrats Stu

I like the idea of a motorbike helmet - flicking up the visor for boundary scrubbing

You should have heard the plans the dob mob had for it. Everything from using it as a barbecue, an ashtray to other less savoury forms of receptacle ??

There is a very dinky little boundary layer fan built in which seems to work well.

[Daniel-K]

Did you sort the secondary or leave it?

[estwing]

lovely bit of kit Stu

[faulksy]

nice one stu, glad you sorted the colimation dan the views were great through it

[Stu]

1 hour ago, Daniel-K said:

Did you sort the secondary or leave it?

Left it as it is for now Dan. I'll have a think before doing anything major to sort it. Views were great as it is. Thanks for all your time checking it out and getting it as good as you did. ??

[todd8137]

Not really a dob but hey ho