Show us your ED80’s!

[Jamesruss13]

Would love to see some pictures of people’s ed80s whether for imaging or just visual, amazing little scopes and can’t wait to get mine! Curious to see what type of focuser/finder/mount people are using so please please post your pictures!  

[carastro]

This is my ED80 as part of a dual imaging rig.  Sorry its annotated for other purposes, however looking at the annotation, the ED80 is about the only part I didn't label, anyway it's the black scope.

The finder is off my gold ED120 and is being used here as a finderguider. 

[xtreemchaos]

heres mine , use for solar Ha in the day, and just about anything at night. charl.

[Spikey]

ED80 with Baader steeltrack focusser and reducer/flattered. Side by side with ST80 & Atik 16ic guiding combination.

[Craney]

This is my Opticstar ED 80   (F5).....  has since taken two unfortunate tumbles and may need a replacement. Here I was having a go at guiding. Haven't quite mastered that yet.

 

 

and this is my SW Equinox 80 (F6.25)...  deployed here controversially  in "Narrow Band with a DSLR mode"

 

[John]

I've owned a few ED80's over the years but none at the moment. I'm visual only so I just looked through them. Here is the Orion (USA) branded one I had a few years ago:

 

[paul mc c]

My c80 ED piggy back on the c9.25.

[Ben the Ignorant]

It's not the ED80 everyones thinks of, f/7.5 Sky-Watcher or Orion doublet with FPL-53 glass, but it's great, too. FPL-51 glass, f/7 ratio, dielectric, violet-damping diagonal, and woven carbon fiber tube for looks. I didn't choose carbon, it was the material attached to the optics sold at a get-rid-of-it-quick clearance price because they were too infected with mold. The store didn't want to bother cleaning them, which I did. The scope was brand new, no marring on the drawtube and the mounting shoe.

Last night there was a so-so clearing, the 80 split a half-dozen doubles with no effort at all, and showed me a couple globulars, M13 and M92. The indigo halo around Vega came and went with fluctuations in the air and focus, but it was surprisingly - and delightfully - absent at focus in calm air (80x). Its basic eyepiece is a Maxvision 34/68, 5mm exit pupil, four degrees at 16x, which is so heavy it requires the sliding counterweight.

The night before, during a much briefer clearing, I thought a thermal plume was maybe distorting the diffraction disk a little bit, but none of that seemed to be the case this night. I need to observe with carbon over this and the warmer season to know for real if and how it affects the view.

[Peter Drew]

I have two of them.    Picture to follow.

[ASTROSTUART]

Here is my Takahashi FC-100 with an 80ED on piggy back. Taken at the last Galloway star camp in November 2017.  I'm in the white goose jacket, dont know who the other numpties are ...  The 80ED has an upgraded moonlite focuser fitted and in this shot a QHY8-L CCD

[Peter Drew]

[Jbro1985]

Recently received from Skipper Billy.  Awaiting first light as the clouds have typically rolled in!

Itching to get going with it.

[Alan White]

Here is  my one with the new yuck green trims!

[Skipper Billy]

45 minutes ago, Jbro1985 said:

Recently received from Skipper Billy.  Awaiting first light as the clouds have typically rolled in!

Itching to get going with it.

and here she  is in her previous home ! Scroll down to about 1/2 way down the page.

Moonlite focuser - SO smooth ?

https://sites.google.com/view/astro-imaging/equipment

I miss her !?

[Kaliska]

Setting up my 80ED for the first time

[newbie alert]

This was my one..now flown the nest..pastures new

[mikeDnight]

My grab & go Equinox 80ED from 3yrs ago. This was the scope that convinced me that aperture is not king!

[Jamesruss13]

Some great set ups very impressed!  

[YKSE]

This is a picture of my 80ED, Baader M56 clicklock clamp is the only update.

The picture shows some impractical stuffs for solar binoviewing, e.g. the extra clickclamp reducers, two unpaired larger zooms, only to show that the stock focuser is more than capable to handle these weight without any slip.

[tooth_dr]

[JemC]

2 hours ago, newbie alert said:

This was my one..now flown the nest..pastures new

Here's mine  courtesy of @newbie alert

in it's new pasture

Still waiting for it's 1st light

 

[Luna-tic]

My W.O. GT81 APO f/5.9, on the mount with my Edge HD 8"

[Chris]

I think some of the old Tal pillar mounts had setting circles? Might be worth a look around ebay. 

[Adreneline]

My SW ED80DS-Pro+414ex-osc with WO ZS71+428ex-mono all mounted on an NEQ6Pro. It works for me!

Good luck!

Adrian

[Highburymark]

My Equinox on tour of duty in Canaries. Lovely optics, but as I'm visual only I sometimes wish it had the longer focal length of the Evostar - but the F6.25 Equinox benefits from a sliding dew shield, so easier for travel.