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My current gaggle of fracs...

Skywatcher ED100 and Lunt LS50THa

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Skywatcher StarTravel150 and Tele Vue Pronto

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Polarex-Unitron 60mm f/9 (circa 1950s and on its way from Ebay now)

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Gone but not forgotten are my Evostar 120mm and StarTravel 102mm :sad:

...and I sold my Dob :grin:

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

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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

I certainly will, Jules - I think it is going to need a little TLC to get a few decades of dust and grime off it before it will show its best but I'm very much looking forward to trying it.

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+1 for wanting a little review of the Unitron when you're all sorted out Derek :)

Provided the clouds cooperate the review will certainly come. I have been reading up about these for the past 48 hours and apparently they sold a barlow under the name of an "Achromatic Amplifier" that you can stick in the focus tube and turn the scope into an f/30 :eek:

If anyone has a Unitron Achromatic Amplifier kicking around please let me know :wink:

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Just stumbled on this great thread, thanks Chris :grin:. Some beautiful fracs of all types, I just love them!

Here are some I have had in recent years, my main one at the moment is the D&G missile launcher. If I find a few more I'll post them tomorrow too.

See if you can spot which is which:

D&G 5" F15

Vixen 102mm F13

TMB 80mm Planet Hunter

TAL 100RS

Polarex (Unitron) 60mm F15

Dave

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You've a great collection of scopes there Dave. I'm particularly fond of the F13 Vixen. I bought one in the mid 80s but sold it around 1993 and deeply regretted doing so. I've many happy memories with that scope, though it upset a few Newt lovers over the years, as it could regularly knock the spots off reflectors double its aperture.

Mike :-)

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Lovely scopes here. I am thinking about getting an ES AR127 (5" F/6.5). They have a great rep, and I want to convert it to a solar instrument. I want to place an 85mm Beloptic tri-band ERF I have halfway down the tube (this filter passes the solar continuum band, a band around H-alpha and a band around CaK, and reflects all the rest back). I could then switch between white light and H-alpha quickly, with the option of getting a CaK module later. Should be a killer solar set-up (and a good-looking scope to boot).

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You've a great collection of scopes there Dave. I'm particularly fond of the F13 Vixen. I bought one in the mid 80s but sold it around 1993 and deeply regretted doing so. I've many happy memories with that scope, though it upset a few Newt lovers over the years, as it could regularly knock the spots off reflectors double its aperture.

Mike :-)

 Thanks Mike,

I've never seen another like it actually. It looked fantastic but to be honest wasn't the very best optically - good, for sure, but others I've had like my current D&G, the TMB and various 80mm F15s all delivered better images. I had the lens checked out by Es Reid and he advised that it was "ok but not great" - and to make it great would cost hundreds in re-figuring the lens. The buyer was very happy with it as he mainly wanted it for lunar observation, whereas I wanted that bit extra sharpness for double star splitting at high power. But it was a thing of beauty to look at!

Chris, thanks. I will post pics of the 80mm Towa lens Moonraker when I can find them! And thanks for starting the thread - good to see that we in the UK can give the CN crowd a run for their money with a great variety of refractors, apos/achros - it doesn't matter which :-)

Dave

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"Baby's first (semi) APO". Altair Astro 66ED-R

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As a first time (vaguely upmarket) FRAC owner I'm pleasantly surprised... :)

(Phases of Venus without the customary Achromat "purple haze" etc.)  

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