What did the postman bring?

[Telescope40]

On 29/05/2020 at 17:50, Lockie said:

Hello Gary. @garryblueboy.  I have on order from FLO the same puck and saddle for my AZ EQ5 GT. 

Have you found to be a real solid upgrade?? 
 

John 

Edited May 31, 2020 by Telescope40

[Adam Barnsley]

Fresh delivery. 😍

[garryblueboy]

58 minutes ago, Telescope40 said:

Hello Gary. @garryblueboy.  I have on order from FLO the same puck and saddle for my AZ EQ5 GT. 

Have you found to be a real solid upgrade?? 
 

John 

Quality mate I’ve always been a ADM man but I love the finish on these and same money 

[garryblueboy]

Not the postman but amazon I needed some rubber feet for the planet as the wife was giving me the evils last couple days and I thought best get some rubber feet so looking I thought bet I can do better than about £30 so good old Amazon next day via prime and they look and do the job very well £8

[johninderby]

Had the Primaluce puck and saddle on my AZ -EQ5 when I had one. Was very solid. 👍🏻

Edited May 31, 2020 by johninderby

[Stub Mandrel]

On 27/05/2020 at 14:11, Pixies said:

Start of a collection.

I have the 18mm, it's lovely, even with my poor ability to see differences in quality I can see how good it is.

[garryblueboy]

17 minutes ago, KevS said:

Do they make them to fit a EQ6-R Pro? I have seen them advertised for EQ6 and having just bought some nice red rings and a dovetail for my set up from the same company it would satisfy my obsessional behaviour to have everything match. Being the same colour I might even be able to smuggle it past the "astro police". 

Not 100% but I think there the same as AZEQ6  

[Telescope40]

1 hour ago, garryblueboy said:

Quality mate I’ve always been a ADM man but I love the finish on these and same money 

 

1 hour ago, johninderby said:

Had the Primaluce puck and saddle on my AZ -EQ5 when I had one. Was very solid. 👍🏻

Thanks both @garryblueboy and @johninderby

Hope fully will arrive this week. FLO a little slower than their usual magic delivery times but no biggie. 
Do they come with the bolt on hardware or is that for me to sort ? 
John 

Edited May 31, 2020 by Telescope40

[johninderby]

Don’t remember it coming with bolts or at least the saddle didn’t. I bought a pack of bolts to attach the saddle hence why all the bolt holes are used. 😁

Edited May 31, 2020 by johninderby

[garryblueboy]

13 minutes ago, johninderby said:

Don’t remember it coming with bolts or at least the saddle didn’t. I bought a pack of bolts to attach the saddle hence why all the bolt holes are used. 😁

The saddle came with mounting bolts in centre x4 obviously the puck uses existing grub bolts 

Edited May 31, 2020 by garryblueboy

[ApophisAstros]

11 hours ago, Adam Barnsley said:

Fresh delivery. 😍

Thanks for the heads up , just ordered😀

Roger

[markse68]

Not the postman- had to drive to N London (😳) to pick it up- another stamp in the passport!

Hoping to use it with the Tal 100RS But it's a lot smaller than I had imagined- don’t know if it’ll be up to it. Nice and light though!

[JeremyS]

A 1988 classic reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2008:

[bomberbaz]

Been waiting for this for too long.  Can’t wait to try it out  

[laudropb]

To image or not to image...............That is the question 

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

A TS-Optics 1.25" Crayford Focuser to replace the toy focuser on the Star Discovery 150P. Very fast DHL delivery from Germany. It was only ordered on Friday morning. A nice surprise!

Happy just touching it. A very smooth knob action and it's lightweight.

Black adonised screws and low profile nuts are otw from Ebay.

[Anthony1979]

Well was hoping my SW 130pds was going to arrive... Was suppose to be here yesterday but phone and they said its coming today but not holding my breath.... Unhappy...its looking like a refund 

[Zermelo]

My first order from our friends at FLO arrived yesterday.
Obviously things are running a bit slower at the moment with COVID, but that did mean that the out-of-stock EP became available before dispatch😁

All these items were chosen based on (multiple) recommendations from forum members.
Although my Other Half and I plan to upgrade to a GoTo before too long, I figured an RDF would still be a good call in the short term.
I still can't believe that the filter is our most expensive purchase to date, by some distance. You have a lot to prove, little UHC, when the darker skies return!
We tried out the new EP last night on the moon. As it was a 12mm, I thought it would be nice to compare it against the 12mm stock Kellner that came with the budget 'frac we use (no specs for the stock EP of course, but I had previously calculated a 33° APOV from a drift test). Wow, very impressive - I've never viewed through an EP with a 60° APOV before. Lord knows what the view in a 110° Ethos is like, but that would be more than we were planning to spend on the next scope😂

Edited June 2, 2020 by Zermelo
typo"RDP">"RDF"

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

An Oklop 150/750 telescope bag. Bought new off Ebay from a shop in Zagreb at a great price!

[Richie092]

I got a Celestron NexStar Evolution 8 EdgeHD with StarSense. Stayed up late enough to view the moon and was bowled over. I set it up with the App, took about 5 mins.

Really looking forward to getting some use out of this and seeing what I can see.

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

Black anodised m4 low profile locking nuts and m4 16mm countersunk screws for the TS-O focuser.

... and a black 9x50 finder bracket. the finder looks very swish now. Hah. Thanks @Oldfort !

 

Edited June 2, 2020 by ScouseSpaceCadet

[Tenor Viol]

Postman is currently quite busy... last week this arrived...

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

Deliveries are like buses atm. Wait ages and several turn up at once!

An OVL Nirvana ES 82° 4mm eyepiece from FLO.

[Guest]

Moan warning! 🙄

I'm waiting for an eyepiece coming from a fellow SGL member, but Royal Mail has let me down... 

Firstly they try to deliver it when I'm out. I then go to the Sorting Office the next day with the card, only to discover it's open between 7am till 9am, but shut on a Wednesday. So, I'm out Thursday morning, but have arranged a redelivery to a neighbour's flat.  Fingers crossed! 🤞

[Tenor Viol]

I know what you mean - I seem to get astronomy and music deliveries on alternating days at the moment... Amazon has just been but it's a music book. Tomorrow I am expecting RM and UPS to make astronomy related deliveries....