Show Us Your Dobs

[That Bear Guy]

It arrived - it's finally arrived 😀

10" is about as much weight as I'm going to be able to carry to a dark site

But still Droool to all the above 😉

[Guest]

Here in the States this is called the Orion Skyline 10 inch.   It's a pretty solid scope.

[Mircea]

My first Dobsonian telescope D=160mm F/9.

At the same time my first serious telescope if I exclude the refractors made with spectacle lenses; and the first Dobsonian documented in our country. First light August 1990. This first Dobsonian don't exist anymore, only the mirror and the cell.

The mirror, a very good one,  was made by amateur Gavril Beches. 

Example of observation: the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter, observed with the 160mm Dobsonian.

 

 

My second Dobsonian  telescope D= 125mm F/6.9.

Also this reflector use a Beches miror. It was the first time he used the Millie-Lacroix or Tornado method. It has a small 5mm rised edge of F/6.The rest of the surface is about lambda/ 24. This small reflector resolve double stars of 0.9'' separation.

Example of observation: the comet Hale-Bopp observed with the second Dob.

 

My third Dobsonian D=200mm F/6.16 , donated by Alin Tolea from USA. 

Alin helped many amateurs in Romania to build telescopes in a time when the telescope market did not existed here. To honor him the telescope is named ''Toleascope''. Thank you Alin !

The  miror of this telescope have an unknown pedigree. But it resolve double stars of 0.6'' separation like was Eta CrB in 2011.

Example of observation: the multiple star Burnham 385 of 0.69'' separation, resolved with the ''Toleascope'' Dob.

 

My last Dobsonian is a second-hand Sky Watcher Classic 250P. Again, thanks God, I was lucky ! 

The 250mm F/4.8 miror is of good quality. It arrived on March 21. On March 23 it helped me to pick comet C3/ 2019 L3 ATLAS.

On May 5 it showed the Airy discs in contact, overlapped, of Eta CrB.

StelleDoppie is showing a ''precise separation'' of 0.37'' for this double star. I modified the drawing of David Knisely to show  somehow what I have seen at 480x / TMB 2.5mm. (I hope David will not be upset because of this.)

The neighborhood of EtaCrB is very desert, not much to draw.

 

I don't see any other Dobsonian telescope in my future.

I'm happy with what I have. I just hope for health, pray for peace , dream about less light pollution.

Mircea

 

[Piero]

My two boys alone and together:

[Victor Boesen]

36 minutes ago, Piero said:

My two boys alone and together:

You call those boys?? Should have called my old 10" dob a fetus then

Edited June 29, 2022 by Victor Boesen

[TheycallmeRiver]

There's my XT10i, somewhere over there in the middle of what my kids call 'Astronomy Corner'.

[garryblueboy]

My search has ended My Obsession begins

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by garryblueboy

[Guest]

3 hours ago, garryblueboy said:

My search has ended My Obsession begins

I was so close to getting one of these too.  It was a 20 inch F5.  Storage for it was going to be an issue. 

[garryblueboy]

2 minutes ago, Mike Q said:

I was so close to getting one of these too.  It was a 20 inch F5.  Storage for it was going to be an issue. 

I know ask my Wife she still has the hump lol 😂 but it will sit nicely in corner of our conservatory then it’s a quick  10 foot to the viewing area can’t wait 😝 

[Guest]

Just now, garryblueboy said:

I know ask my Wife she still has the hump lol 😂 but it will sit nicely in corner of our conservatory then it’s a quick  10 foot to the viewing area can’t wait 😝 

If i had bought it i would have left it assembled and it would have lived in the garage.  While i dont mind keeping my Skyline out there, a work of art like yours deserves a better home then that.  So i gave it a pass. 

[garryblueboy]

18 minutes ago, Mike Q said:

If i had bought it i would have left it assembled and it would have lived in the garage.  While i dont mind keeping my Skyline out there, a work of art like yours deserves a better home then that.  So i gave it a pass. 

👍

[bosun21]

3 hours ago, garryblueboy said:

I know ask my Wife she still has the hump lol 😂 but it will sit nicely in corner of our conservatory then it’s a quick  10 foot to the viewing area can’t wait 😝 

Did you end up buying the one from the eBay seller then?

[garryblueboy]

4 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

Did you end up buying the one from the eBay seller then?

 it wasn’t the guy I thought it was but some one who I have dealt with before many times and could trust 

[bosun21]

1 minute ago, garryblueboy said:

 it wasn’t the guy I thought it was but some one who I have dealt with before many times and could trust 

Congratulations, it’s one nice telescope.

[garryblueboy]

15 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

Congratulations, it’s one nice telescope.

Thanks yes worth the wait 

[Piero]

Nice one! 

[PeterStudz]

Great reading through this thread, especially after a rather tedious day trying to work. Some lovely Dob out there. Here’s my SkyWatcher 200p at various times during the year.

[Mr Spock]

The big lad, just now. 

Illumination provided by my living room light and my neighbour's insecurity light. I'm just glad those aren't my bedrooms opposite 

[Guest]

Finally have a genuine light bucket.  The new to me Orion XX16G.  Quite a step up from the 10 inch Skyline 

[Sunshine]

Fairly new, has it’s nuisances which I’ll figure out but overall it has been great optically and don’t get me started on Starsense.