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Physopto

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Selling a scope at £58,500 ad the tutorials dealing with the absolute very basic ideas of imaging? Have they lost the plot? Maybe a website for the BORED MILLIONAIRE with nothing else to do. :glasses12:

Some very nice gear though.

Derek

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Davey-T

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6 minutes ago, rockystar said:

Very nice. I'm still waiting for some to 1/8ths on this with me though:

http://www.marketplace.skyandtelescope.com/classified/jmi-telescope--40-new-technology-telescope-ntt-40-listing-429.aspx

It does come with its own trailer...

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No good for imaging though so have to pass.

Dave

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ultranova

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I was tempted for one Nano second, until I remembered

I have £58 pound in the bank not £58,000 also

the other inherent problem in buying a new scope is clouds

and it appears in the UK the more you spend on a scope

the more clouds you get, and that's a lot of clouds :)

Paul

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ollypenrice

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F1.44. Bet that'll work out of the box!

But the killer is this: £58,000 to work at an image scale of 4.29 arcseconds per pixel using the camera recommended in the ad. Noooo. 

This would be a scope for professional widefield suverys, perhaps, but working at 3.5 "PP is already as coarse as I want to go. That's what we get in our Tak FSQ106 and Atik 11000.

If ever we get a 36mm square chip with 3 micron pixels then this instrument might have a role in life!

Olly

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2 hours ago, Physopto said:

Selling a scope at £58,500 ad the tutorials dealing with the absolute very basic ideas of imaging? Have they lost the plot? Maybe a website for the BORED MILLIONAIRE with nothing else to do. :glasses12:

Some very nice gear though.

Derek

there's plenty of newcomers to ap that think they can buy a good image :)

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Knight of Clear Skies

Knight of Clear Skies

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F1.44, that's fast. But would it have any advantages over a much cheaper triple rig? As Olly says, sounds like it would make an ideal survey scope. I've had a quick go at imaging at this speed with a 50mm lens, 30 seconds on Orion gives with a modded DSLR and 12nm Ha filter gives this.

23478699293_5ea664cf5b_z.jpg

Great fun but the star shapes in the corners do suffer, portrait lenses are not designed to produce flat fields.

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DaveS

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4 hours ago, rockystar said:

Very nice. I'm still waiting for some to 1/8ths on this with me though:

http://www.marketplace.skyandtelescope.com/classified/jmi-telescope--40-new-technology-telescope-ntt-40-listing-429.aspx

It does come with its own trailer...

:D

 

Nah, it's only a dob, no use to me.:evil4:

Something like this, though:

http://planewave.com/products-page/cdk700/0-7m-cdk-telescope-system/#.V0sxjFj2Y-U

Anyone want to go halves? :grin:

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4 hours ago, Davey-T said:

http://astrograph.net/epages/www_astrograph_net.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/www_astrograph_net/Categories/Equipment/"Telescopes %26 Binoculars"/Catadioptic_Astrograph

Dave

I saw that a while ago while looking at heir site. Have you seen the size of the central obstruction? :eek: And the ray plots look non too good either.

Sorry I'll pass.

I do however drool over this:

http://astrograph.net/epages/www_astrograph_net.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/www_astrograph_net/Products/AGTEC180

180mm *and* Fluorite? Yes!

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ollypenrice

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37 minutes ago, DaveS said:

I saw that a while ago while looking at heir site. Have you seen the size of the central obstruction? :eek: And the ray plots look non too good either.

Sorry I'll pass.

I do however drool over this:

http://astrograph.net/epages/www_astrograph_net.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/www_astrograph_net/Products/AGTEC180

180mm *and* Fluorite? Yes!

Even TEC themselves say, though, that this represents a big increase in spending over the TEC140 for a small increase in resolution. Hey, I'd like the 180 but you can expect to pick up a 140 for less than a quarter of that price.

Olly

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52 minutes ago, DaveS said:

I saw that a while ago while looking at heir site. Have you seen the size of the central obstruction? :eek: And the ray plots look non too good either.

Sorry I'll pass.

I do however drool over this:

http://astrograph.net/epages/www_astrograph_net.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/www_astrograph_net/Products/AGTEC180

180mm *and* Fluorite? Yes!

I love the shipping time on this one - somewhere between 2 and 12 months....

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