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[25585]

My Tele Vue Genesis kit with 25mm Baader Symmetrical Plossl, Baader 30mm Eudiascopic & TV 55mm Plossl in case. A Barlow is used with the 30 usually. 

 

 

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[25585]

Travel case. Equinox 80 with 35mm Baader Eudiascopic, Vixen 5mm LV, 10mm LV & 8-24 LV zoom. Sky Watcher 1.25" prism. 

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[25585]

White refractor. 

[Stub Mandrel]

Who needs a Tak?

 

When you have one of these...

A box of joy in 1965?

Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!

Super stable tripod:

Sorry for poor quality, (I left the camera on shutter priority without noticing).

Need to gently persuade that dewshield back to its original shape:

Top notch coated optics!

Best of all, look what it does for your career prospects:

[Tonynexevo925]

Brilliant ??

Surely worth a guest spot on Sky at Night for a demo ?

[John]

Same era as my Tasco 60mm F/13

Ditch the sun filter though

[Stub Mandrel]

53 minutes ago, John said:

Same era as my Tasco 60mm F/13

Ditch the sun filter though

Fear not - as I commented "Danger! Danger!"

 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Tonynexevo925 said:

Brilliant ??

Surely worth a guest spot on Sky at Night for a demo ?

Strangely enough, I've just done a bit of googling and in the USA the 6TER-S is very high thought of!

[DRT]

Here is my current crop of Fracs, pictured together for the first and last time ?

The ED120 and at least one but probably two more will follow to help fund the big guy at the top. 

The Evo 150 is quaking in its boots ?

[Djt]

This is my FC 76DCU set up for a glimpse of Jupiter and Mars last night. It has the 1.7 CX module installed.

 

 

[RiponJas]

New to all this astronomy business and not got to much spare cash at moment but after starting the other month with a dob I have now bought my first frac. 

Bresser AR152L/1200 on a HEQ5 Pro. Thought it might be a good little starting package for me. Certainly made Jupiter look better than the dob did last night. Money well spent me thinks. ? 

Certainly some nice looking set ups on here, not jealous at all honestly! 

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Spellings

[JeremyS]

3 hours ago, Djt said:

This is my FC 76DCU set up for a glimpse of Jupiter and Mars last night. It has the 1.7 CX module installed.

 

 

Lovely! I've got one of those too. What's the mount?

[25585]

I have a Q1.6x ED extender now making my DL F14.4 & 1440mm FL. 

Yet to try it out, but soon hopefully. A flourite doublet long FL frac with over 100x on a 14mm Morpheus ep & twice that with a XW 7mm. Long eye relief & high mags ahoy!

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[25585]

4 hours ago, RiponJas said:

New to all this astronomy business and not got to much spare cash at moment but after starting the other month with a dob I have now bought my first frac. 

Bresser AR152L/1200 on a HEQ5 Pro. Thought it might be a good little starting package for me. Certainly made Jupiter look better than the dob did last night. Money well spent me thinks. ? 

Certainly some nice looking set ups on here, not jealous at all honestly! 

Very nice! How does the HEQ5 handle your scope's weight?

If only there was an AZ HEQ5 in SW range!

[RiponJas]

Takes the weight nicely,  would need another counter balance with big ep's or astrophotography gear tho. 

[celestron8g8]

Hopefully these picts turn out right . Stellarvue AT1010 , 80mm, 480FL . 

[Djt]

4 hours ago, JeremyS said:

Lovely! I've got one of those too. What's the mount?

Thanks. The mount is an FTX and it’s on a Samson Tripod

[MNJay]

For my first post, why don't I share my beloved refractors? Two of them, anyway...

Takahashi FC-76DC f/7.5 mounted next to my APM/TMB/LZOS 105/650 f/6.2 on the Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G. In the FC-76DC is a FeatherTouch FTF2025BCR with a Baader 1.25" Zeiss BBHS prism diagonal and a TeleVue 24mm Panoptic, and in the TMB105 is a FTF2020BCR with a Baader 2" BBHS Sitall mirror diagonal and a TeleVue 13mm Ethos. I'm dying to get this setup out to a dark site! It's already late June and weather plus work means I haven't gotten out to my club's Bortle 3 site since November!!! ? I got one night with the TMB105 under Bortle 5-6 with terrible transparency and nearly a full moon. It was just about as bad as my typical Bortle 8 skies at home. But soon I hope to get out. Soon....... until then, it's Saturn from my balcony.

[Paz]

4 minutes ago, MNJay said:

For my first post, why don't I share my beloved refractors? Two of them, anyway...

Takahashi FC-76DC f/7.5 mounted next to my APM/TMB/LZOS 105/650 f/6.2 on the Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G. In the FC-76DC is a FeatherTouch FTF2025BCR with a Baader 1.25" Zeiss BBHS prism diagonal and a TeleVue 24mm Panoptic, and in the TMB105 is a FTF2020BCR with a Baader 2" BBHS Sitall mirror diagonal and a TeleVue 13mm Ethos. I'm dying to get this setup out to a dark site! It's already late June and weather plus work means I haven't gotten out to my club's Bortle 3 site since November!!! ? I got one night with the TMB105 under Bortle 5-6 with terrible transparency and nearly a full moon. It was just about as bad as my typical Bortle 8 skies at home. But soon I hope to get out. Soon....... until then, it's Saturn from my balcony.

Welcome to SGL, that is certainly a fine first post!

[John]

38 minutes ago, MNJay said:

For my first post, why don't I share my beloved refractors? Two of them, anyway...

Takahashi FC-76DC f/7.5 mounted next to my APM/TMB/LZOS 105/650 f/6.2 on the Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G. In the FC-76DC is a FeatherTouch FTF2025BCR with a Baader 1.25" Zeiss BBHS prism diagonal and a TeleVue 24mm Panoptic, and in the TMB105 is a FTF2020BCR with a Baader 2" BBHS Sitall mirror diagonal and a TeleVue 13mm Ethos. I'm dying to get this setup out to a dark site! It's already late June and weather plus work means I haven't gotten out to my club's Bortle 3 site since November!!! ? I got one night with the TMB105 under Bortle 5-6 with terrible transparency and nearly a full moon. It was just about as bad as my typical Bortle 8 skies at home. But soon I hope to get out. Soon....... until then, it's Saturn from my balcony.

Welcome to the forum

What great taste in scopes you have - Takahashi and APM/TMB/LZOS - same here ! 

[Ags]

I need a bumper sticker for my ST80: "My other scope is a Tak!"

[Sunshine]

On ‎30‎/‎05‎/‎2015 at 08:23, Lowjiber said:

the only "serious" thing that got wet was the Glock on my hip

You walk around your house packing heat? lol 

[deejay]

Here's my £20 Astro branded 60mm Japanese frac in its box as delivered free. Next post is the scope and box after a few days work

[deejay]

Now looking a little bit better

[25585]

On 25/06/2018 at 22:40, Ags said:

I need a bumper sticker for my ST80: "My other scope is a Tak!"

"....an Astro Physics" is cooler ?