Whats your dream telescope

[iPeace]

This one.

P.S. Saturn is just above and to the right of the eyepiece.

[Space Hopper]

Not seen any scopes in this thread that will perform like my own......

On a night of decent seeing (half decent actually) i can easily detect subtle surface details on Saturns moon Mimas ; the Herschel crater being an obvious feature.

Must be the 1/200th wave 60mm Flourite optics and 1.0 Strehl thingy....

[Erla]

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I especially like the "professional" bit. What profession is it? A clown ??

[DAVE AMENDALL]

This one should keep you out of the kitchen. I think it's now being used privately under Spanish skies......Dave

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[L8-Nite]

12 hours ago, Tubby Bear said:

.............................................................................Must be the 1/200th wave 60mm Flourite optics and 1.0 Strehl thingy....

 

Ahhh ! another 60mm enthusiast. 

Look for a Telementor, its the closest you are likely to get; and I'm confident you won't be disappointed.

[estwing]

2 hours ago, L8-Nite said:

Ahhh ! another 60mm enthusiast. 

Look for a Telementor, its the closest you are likely to get; and I'm confident you won't be disappointed.

+1 for a Telementor...a super performing scope for its size

[mapstar]

On 07/07/2017 at 20:47, jetstream said:

Yes, I'm excited Stu! The showcase objects like M101,M51 should be dazzling!

In a 22" under dark skies (well as good as they get in the UK) they are just stunning, in a 24" with the skies you have we'll catch your socks this side of the pond when they land!!!

[N3ptune]

My dream telescope would have the ability to repel mosquitoes away from me on it's own.  (With some sort of mounted technological device)

I think this has been said previously, my dream would be to live in the north of the province where light pollution is very low, with my actual 8" instrument. In a situation like that, maybe I would order a nice 10" or 12" Dobson with tracking capabilities like a SW BK DOB 12", to sketch.

 

[wookie1965]

I`m very happy with the scopes I have my one wish would be a nice solar Ha scope with a HEQ5 mount.

[cloudsweeper]

I want one with a huge aperture (for light) and small FL (for FOV).

Pity about the aberrations and the enormous exit pupil though!

Doug.

[MattJenko]

On 7/8/2017 at 05:37, nightfisher said:

My dream scope does not exist....it would be a 160mm Maksutov F8

Do Mak-Newts count? http://www.astroshop.eu/intesmicro-maksutov-newton-telescope-mn-152-1216-alter-mn68-ota/p,6563

[D Wright]

I feel very privilaged. At the Kielder observatory where I volunteer we have a TS optics 16" RC, a C16, an Eqinox 100 ED and a Coronado PST which I regularly get to play with. I think these would all come under the heading "dream scopes"

[TheMightyKong]

A lightweight rigid (see here: http://www.dreamscopes.com/pages/07/denmark-03.htm ,http://www.dreamcellularllc.com/mechanical.htm ) portable fast 32in dob, with a lightweight cellular mirror ( http://www.dreamcellularllc.com/mirrors.htm ) and CF structure, made by these guys:

http://www.dreamscopes.com

More here.

http://www.dreamcellularllc.com

 

Apparently they are pretty good at mirror making, and can go as fast as you'd want:  http://www.dreamcellularllc.com/news.htm

Scopes on their site are astrographs (  http://dreamscopes.com/pages/07/16inDAtube-10.htm ) but, they do say OEMs welcome, so given this is a money no object exercise, I'm sure they can be persuaded to make a custom visual dob with a truckload of money.