Gonna cull the herd.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Over the next couple of weeks, im gonna cull the herd of EP's. Nothing too great...........just thinning down. All will be 1.25" plossl.

Im keeping my Vixen NPLs. It will be Celestron and Skywatchers.

[Craney]

It's Finders for me..... seem to have got about 5 of them !!!     You get one with every scope you own, but on the night you only use your favorite.

[AndyH]

4 minutes ago, Craney said:

It's Finders for me..... seem to have got about 5 of them !!!     You get one with every scope you own, but on the night you only use your favorite.

Yeah, I've got maybe one too many also...........

[Craney]

Blimey !!!!!  ?.....  "Finders Keepers".....

[25585]

5 hours ago, Craney said:

It's Finders for me..... seem to have got about 5 of them !!!     You get one with every scope you own, but on the night you only use your favorite.

Bit like Plossls then....

[LukeSkywatcher]

I dont have any finderscopes. Too many RDF's though. New scope arrives today and it has a finderscope, but i believe its a bit naff.

[F15Rules]

On 12/06/2018 at 23:15, AndyH said:

Yeah, I've got maybe one too many also...........

Have you got a scope for each finder Andy????

Just exactly what sort of finders are they? - my money is on Russian ones being well represented!?

Dave

[AndyH]

45 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

Have you got a scope for each finder Andy????

Just exactly what sort of finders are they? - my money is on Russian ones being well represented!?

Dave

 From left to right... A pair of AstroBoot 80mm barrels from a broken pair of 20x80 bincs. Another pair of 80mm's from an 1980's pair of 20x80's. Higher quality lenses in these, even if a bit faster focal ratio. measured as F3.75 compaired to all the rest at F4. Nestled between these giants is a Garry Russell 60mm finder(binc barrel plus machined adapter). Next is the inbuilt 23mm finder on the Tal 'M' 80mm Newt. 50mm finder off my 1980's era Dark Star 6"F8 Dob(Looks to have been constructed from a bino objective). Two magnificent 8x50 Tal finders and a 6x30 Tal finder. Finally an AstroBoot 50mm which came with a machined adapter .

This is my favourite of the bigs..

[F15Rules]

34 minutes ago, AndyH said:

 From left to right... A pair of AstroBoot 80mm barrels from a broken pair of 20x80 bincs. Another pair of 80mm's from an 1980's pair of 20x80's. Higher quality lenses in these, even if a bit faster focal ratio. measured as F3.75 compaired to all the rest at F4. Nestled between these giants is a Garry Russell 60mm finder(binc barrel plus machined adapter). Next is the inbuilt 23mm finder on the Tal 'M' 80mm Newt. 50mm finder off my 1980's era Dark Star 6"F8 Dob(Looks to have been constructed from a bino objective). Two magnificent 8x50 Tal finders and a 6x30 Tal finder. Finally an AstroBoot 50mm which came with a machined adapter .

This is my favourite of the bigs..

Fab selection Andy..You should set up your own Astroboot site?!

Thanks for sharing..

Dave

[LukeSkywatcher]

Those finders are bigger than my actual scopes.

[25585]

On 12/06/2018 at 23:15, AndyH said:

Yeah, I've got maybe one too many also...........

If you have 2 identical RACI maybe make a pair of binoculars?