The "show us your (lickable?) OG" thread

[Corncrake]

1 hour ago, merlin100 said:

Are the Fluorite ones minty fresh? 🤔Think about it... 😂

I wondered why my Water Utility bill was so high : they forgot to send me their new 40" 

 

[DirkSteele]

One to whet the appetite until I take some better photos of my scopes objectives.

 

Dual wielding LZOS triplets 

[mikeDnight]

I must admit while looking through this slippery thread, the few maksutov's that have slipped in under the radar, have pretty lickable lenses too! But i don't presently own a Mak, so I'll just have to show off my lonely refractor, although from two different angles you get two different minty fresh flavours.

[John]

Can you catch anything from licking a laptop screen ?

Oh dear, the wife has seen me. Have to come up with an excuse now !

[Craney]

20 minutes ago, KevS said:

Where am I going to get a Bahtinov mask for this?

There yer go.....

Especially good for double stars...  

Edited July 4, 2020 by Craney

[Corncrake]

The topic title says :  The "show us your (lickable?) OG" thread

Is that  Ohhh Geee more temptations ?

[mikeDnight]

11 minutes ago, John said:

Can you catch anything from licking a laptop screen ?

Oh dear, the wife has seen me. Have to come up with an excuse now !

No, they are perfectly safe!  Back in January before the lockdown, my son and I called in at McDonalds in Rawtenstal purely out of desperation. There I watched horrified as children played with touch screens designed to keep them quiet, but that were so unimaginably filthy, evolution was taking place on their screens. I wonder how many of those kids are still alive? 

[mikeDnight]

Here's one I found of my lovely old FC100DC. 

[Corncrake]

10 minutes ago, Craney said:

There yer go.....

Brilliant !

'cept the catch is, , , right in the middle

 

[Craney]

2 minutes ago, Corncrake said:

Brilliant !

'cept the catch is, , , right in the middle

 

Nice one......Took a moment to latch on to that one......

[Corncrake]

Just now, Craney said:

Nice one......Took a moment to latch on to that one......

Arghhon

 

[JeremyS]

15 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

I called in at McDonalds in Rawtenstal

I knew you liked to live dangerously, Mike....

🙂

 

[Corncrake]

17 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

I knew you liked to live dangerously, Mike....

🙂

 

and 5million locked down windswept rain drenched amateur astronomers Google "Rawtenstal"

to find out why it is dangerous,,,,

oh I see, a typo ! and I thought it sounded German.

Ducks the flying chickens,,,,,,, and burghers of , , oh never mind, I am in danger of milking it ,,,

33 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

No, they are perfectly safe!  Back in January before the lockdown, my son and I called in at McDonalds in Rawtenstal purely out of desperation.

 

Edited July 4, 2020 by Corncrake

[Alan White]

The least worse image, struggling to take a picture with my phone / p&s etc.
Sadly no lettering on Vixen ED scopes, but clearly some dust..
But here you go.....

[Peter Drew]

I'm not tall enough to get a picture of mine.      🙂

[Macavity]

(Am I among some weird cult of scope lickers?) 🥳
But perhaps (objectively) the "prettiest" I have...



ISTR Jeremy Kyle claimed to LICK his mobile phone "to clean" it?!? 🙀
But I still prefer / forgive my (former) Cats re. that sort of thing. lol

[niallk]

Ok, so I don't know what an 'OG' is - is it frac-speak for 'optical gem'?

(I'd probably kill anyone who licked it!)

[Merlin66]

Old time speak for "Object Glass" = refractor objective lens

[Dantooine]

On 04/07/2020 at 15:32, johninderby said:

Think they have everyone  beat at the Yerkes observatory. 😁😁😁

At least for refractors that is.

“Wait until you see the prism diagonal”

[JeremyS]

On 04/07/2020 at 15:32, johninderby said:

Think they have everyone  beat at the Yerkes observatory. 😁😁😁

At least for refractors that is.

If I use a Quark, should I use an Energy Rejection Filter on the front?

[johninderby]

Just wait untill I finish the PST mod on this. 😁😁😁

[F15Rules]

Here are some current and past scope lenses (and 2 corrector plates from Maks) - both very lickable!!

From the top:

Two shots of my FS128 - 'nuff said😍

Two shots of Vixen ED103s, first with dirty objective and second after a good clean!😱 - superb, underrated scopes, half the used cost of a Tak or less, and very nearly as good!

Shot of both FS128 and ED103s together

Pentax J80 F12 achromat - wonderful old achromat

Ylena/Lomo150mm Mak - brilliant Mak - think 5" Apo images when thermally stable

Orion OMC140 Hilux - very nice, easy to use high power scope

Meade/Bresser 127L F9.4 achromat - a very decent scope and I believe this one went to John Huntley here on SGL..I think John liked it too, as I recall..

And finally...very nice vintage AE of Luton 4.5" F14 refractor - actually an uncoated lens, but still, er, very lickable! 

Dave

 

 

Edited July 9, 2020 by F15Rules

[JeremyS]

A very nice set Dave, @F15Rules.

Just a question about the AE lens. Is the reason why there is no coating because it has been completely licked off?

🙂

PS that FS128 OG looks scrumptious!

[F15Rules]

1 hour ago, JeremyS said:

A very nice set Dave, @F15Rules.

Just a question about the AE lens. Is the reason why there is no coating because it has been completely licked off?

🙂

PS that FS128 OG looks scrumptious!

Hi Jeremy,

Well it was a Jim Hysom lens apparently, so maybe he licked it as part of the polishing process?

Come to think of it, I did read somewhere that it was fully coated on external surfaces with "Saliva Sulphate" I think it was called? 😉😁

Yes, the Tak doublet set is very attractive, thanks - but absolutely NO Licking!!

I think one of the most lickable looking OG's  I ever saw was the TAL 100r early version, just a gorgeous bluish purple hue..

See photo below, showing the newer TAL100 RS lens on the left and the older, bluer TAL100R lens on the right (Neil English photo credit). I know which one I'd rather lick!!🤣😂

..and, having owned a number of both, the earlier bluer coated lens was noticeably better than the RS100 one IMHO too!

Dave

Edited July 9, 2020 by F15Rules

[John]

The early TAL 100 objectives had beautiful coatings

The ED120 is pretty good as well though. It pretty much vanishes if you catch it at a certain angle.