Show us your Frac

[AlistairW]

Getting ready for an attempt tonight ....

[DRT]

You got the unitron at a great price, please post up a little review when you have had a good play with it, i was tempted with it

It arrived today and I have started a review thread here.

[Hitesh]

Here's Lola [emoji2]

Nothing is true, everything is permitted

[nightfisher]

Here is one i owned a little while back, a 76mm f16.5 vintage Japanese frac, this was branded ST but in truth was a prinz 660

It was in fantastic condition but as always, i had it at a time when i owned way to many scopes so i found it a new home

[Chris]

That's lovely Jules! I'd like one of those

[Scott]

Here's my usual "frac"...

Ok Stuart, I'm baffled... whats with the two AT's?

[StuartJPP]

Nice - my kind of frac's  and tripod Two astrotracs?

Peter...

Ok Stuart, I'm baffled... whats with the two AT's?

It was an experiment I was running to try to guide two AT's, one in DEC and one in RA...although the set-up was quite fiddly I managed to get 10 minute subs at 500mm of decent quality...except if there was even the slightest breeze...then game over.

[F15Rules]

Sorry they're a bit late, but here are some shots of my Moonraker F15 80mm. 

It's based on a Prinz 660 with Kenko lens (superb glass) but apart from the original finder which has been stripped and highly polished, the tube is new, fully baffled and flocked and has an uber long 10" dewshield, also flocked. The focuser is a twin speed Crawmach USA with 2" capability. 

This scope is optically superb: Mark at Moonraker made a new cell and expertly mounted the original lens in perfect alignment and the scope delivers textbook stellar images and CA is all but non-existent.

The shots here show her both on my CG4 (which matches nicely with the polished aluminium of the OTA) and also on my upgraded CG5 and fixed height wooden tripod with Berlebach original wooden tray.

Dave

[Chris]

Simply exquisite Dave   

The guy/guys at Moonraker must get a huge amount of satisfaction from their creations, and you must be a very proud owner

[Chris]

I like Richard Day's style also and wouldn't mind something like this one day:

http://skylight-telescopes.com/?page_id=104

That Moonraker f/11 Rocket looks beautiful also:

http://www.moonrakertelescopes.co.uk/telescope-range.html

I turn 40 at the end of the year, so if I get my wife to chip in and also sell a kidney   

[LukeSkywatcher]

I was looking at the moonraker site last week. Some stunning scopes there.

[Stu]

Lovely scope Dave. I've been to visit Mark a couple of times to get a few bits done on my Vixen and his workshop is always an Alladin's cave of part made or completed lovely scopes of all sorts. I've seen the Rocket there and it does look gorgeous.

[DRT]

I turn 40 at the end of the year, so if I get my wife to chip in and also sell a kidney   

That might be hoping for too much, Chris - I'm sure she loves you, but do you really think she will sell one of her kidneys to buy you another telescope?

[Stu]

That might be hoping for too much, Chris - I'm sure she loves you, but do you really think she will sell one of her kidneys to buy you another telescope?

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[LukeSkywatcher]

She'll be grand. I hope she already hasnt sold the other one.

[Chris]

Well, dialysis has come a long way in recent years Ooh I really shouldn't joke about that kind of thing 

My new book has just arrived - Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope by Neil English

[Odd Thomas]

Here's 3 of my Skylight family...

Little brother 60mm f16,

Big brother 4" f13,

And cousin 102mm Apo. triplet, which is quite simply (in my opinion) the nicest scope I have ever seen never mind owned, I love it!

Big daddy 6" f15 is shy and hiding in the shed.....

Edited June 9, 2015 by Odd Thomas

[Chris]

I very much like your taste in scopes

You're joking about having a 6" f/15 right??

[Odd Thomas]

Thank you. No I'm not joking Chris. It's on a Fullerscopes Mk1V deluxe. There is a picture of it somewhere on the board,

[Fozzie]

Big daddy 6" f15 is shy and hiding in the shed.....

Not sure you can still call it a shed with this observatory standard piece in it!

I was going to post my starwave, but in all honesty we might as just well lock this thread and put it to bed now....

Edited June 9, 2015 by Fozzie

[Chris]

Thank you. No I'm not joking Chris. It's on a Fullerscopes Mk1V deluxe. There is a picture of it somewhere on the board,

Holy mackerel, I'm going to look for that picture!

[Paul M]

I think I found it:

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/158904-a-brace-of-skylights/?hl=%2Bskylight

[Chris]

Not sure you can still call it a shed with this observatory standard piece in it!

I was going to post my starwave, but in all honesty we might as just well lock this thread and put it to bed now....

Noooo! don't lock it!

Starwave! starwave! starwave! Go on, post the pic  

[Fozzie]

Noooo! don't lock it!

Starwave! starwave! starwave! Go on, post the pic

There's no way i'm following up those skylights with my starwave, it's just not fair on the poor thing!

If somebody can post some national geographic 40mm/F10 educational scopes first then i'll probably consider it, but there's no way my lovely starwave is going to be the "oh bless look at the cute scope next to those skylights"

[Odd Thomas]

Come on, don't be shy. We're all friends here.