Show us your dewcap?

[F15Rules]

I was "inspired" to start this light hearted thread by JeremyS, who bought a flexible lightweight dewshield as his Tak "manhole cover" solid aluminium dewcap affects the balance of his scope (I actually tend to remove my dewcap when observing - it really does improve the views!??).

So here is my Tak FS128 "manhole cover" next to the lightweight dewcap from my Vixen ED103s for scale.

Anyone else willing to show us theirs? Any protection for lens or mirror, solid or flexible, heavy or light, is allowed ?..

Dave

[JohnSadlerAstro]

26 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

(I actually tend to remove my dewcap when observing - it really does improve the views!??). 

To borrow a line from Monty Python -- OOOH! WELL I NEVER!!!  

 

I once cut the middle out of a default SW 130mm cover, to turn it into a Bahtinov. They are actually surprisingly difficult to cut. I ended up drilling all the way round which took a long time!  

John

[JeremyS]

24 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

I was "inspired" to start this light hearted thread by JeremyS,

Oh my goodness - what have I done?

I need to find one of those new emojis for whatever it is

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[xtreemchaos]

no there too shy ?, charl.

[iPeace]

Feeling a strange compulsion to encourage this most pythonesque of initiatives...

This cap is an after-market purchase; seemed appropriate re. the origins of the objective:

[Ben the Ignorant]

Have you never been absent-minded?

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[JeremyS]

One of my chums owned a Takahashi Mewlon 180. These come with soft dew caps that fit over the end of the tube (no Tak personhole cover here!). When observing he actually wore it on his head. Trying to find a photo, but so far without success.....

 

[JG777]

About this time last year someone here coined a phrase "The start of Summer madness" I think we have arrived!

[iPeace]

Get a load of these beauties...

[steppenwolf]

I have an automatically opening and closing cap so I never get caught out marvelling at how dark the sky is from my location. It also acts as an EL panel for taking flat frames. ?

 

[RT65CB-SWL]

 <--- This what I use on my ETX 105 as I have lost/mislaid the original.

note: The photo was taken before the ETX 105 're-mod'.

[Stu]

Encouraged by Jeremy, and in a desperate bid to resist a ‘Show us your LensCoat’ thread, here is my Tak in its new covers, which protect it when packed down for air travel.

LensCoat covers are amazingly versatile products, I can see them popping up in all sorts of places in the house  

[Demonperformer]

18 minutes ago, Stu said:

in a desperate bid to resist a ‘Show us your LensCoat’ thread,

How about a 'show us your lens coat-ing' thread?

[JeremyS]

2 hours ago, Demonperformer said:

How about a 'show us your lens coat-ing' thread?

Yes, and if it's any good it should be invisible ?

[Davey-T]

4 hours ago, Stu said:

LensCoat covers are amazingly versatile products, I can see them popping up in all sorts of places in the house

As recommended on here, I'm expecting a couple to arrive from Wex today, my scopes spend a lot of time set up in the garden and the metal lens caps wear away at the inside of the scope covers, hopefully these will provide a bit of padding as well as preventing the cap flying off and crashing to the ground when pulling the cover off.

Dave

[Djt]

Shower cap on a 10”RC Truss ..works a treat provided there is an Astrozap shroud as well.

guy in the local markets knocks these out.

[Stub Mandrel]

Well I thought I could beat anything, but a shower cap???

My 400mm Prinz Galaxy (yes used for AP) - it's aluminium end cap is the bottom of a small fire-extinguisher, the middle of it is the dew shield. Gaffa tape and bits of flock provide a grip ?

[sloz1664]

19 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Well I thought I could beat anything, but a shower cap???

My 400mm Prinz Galaxy (yes used for AP) - it's aluminium end cap is the bottom of a small fire-extinguisher, the middle of it is the dew shield. Gaffa tape and bits of flock provide a grip ?

Sorry Neil, yep the shower cap wins

Steve

[JeremyS]

9 hours ago, Djt said:

Shower cap on a 10”RC Truss ..

That's gotta be for someone with a pretty big head. And French, too, looking at the print design.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, sloz1664 said:

Sorry Neil, yep the shower cap wins

>SOB<

Will I never win an SGL competition...?

[Djt]

1 hour ago, JeremyS said:

That's gotta be for someone with a pretty big head. And French, too, looking at the print design.

Mmmmmmmmm.

 

Much better than the standard lid when dealing with secondary dew heater cables

 

[25585]

None of those groovy coloured WO OG covers yet - red, gold, blue...

[AndyH]

A bit late to the party, but here goes ..

Novosibirsk Instrument Making Plant's lens hood emblem in all it's glory (Новосибирский Приборостроительный Завод)

[Stub Mandrel]

In contrast, the logo of the Novaya Zemlya focus knob and dustbin lid facility ?

 

[sloz1664]

On 13/06/2018 at 23:04, 25585 said:

None of those groovy coloured WO OG covers yet - red, gold, blue...

Oh go on then...

Steve