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

[johninderby]

ScopeTech 80mm f/15. Yes there is glass in that cell. 👍🏻

[DirkSteele]

Time for some Russian LZOS glass.

my oldest refractor (2004), the 115 f/7

 

The 105 f/6.2 bought in 2012.

 

The 130mm f/9.24 bought in 2019.

 

I will need to get a photo of the 180mm f/7 later.

[DirkSteele]

And so the Japanese don’t feel left out, the Takahashi 76mm f/7.5

[John]

Class glass Matthew 

Your 2019 LZOS 130 F/9.24 is #122. My 2006 130 F/9.24 is #020. That's around 8 per year I reckon.

 

[DirkSteele]

3 hours ago, John said:

Class glass Matthew 

Your 2019 LZOS 130 F/9.24 is #122. My 2006 130 F/9.24 is #020. That's around 8 per year I reckon.

 

I find it amazing that a scope can be put into production that has such low sales numbers.

 

A shame more have not been sold as many more astronomers need to experience what can be described as LZOS’ 9th symphony.

[Rob]

Here's my Revelation 80ED.. She maybe FPL-51.. but a great visual performer all the same

[Alfian]

On 10/07/2020 at 00:25, F15Rules said:

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

An old photo of my Tal100r objective showing the very blue hue. I'll hopefully post a better photo shortly along with a few others in the collection.

[DirkSteele]

This might be the smallest one to appear in this thread, but it deserves to be here for one very good reason. The best coatings I have seen on anything, ever. Should that be not seen as if it were not for the small particles of dust, this thing is invisible. 
 

The Takahashi 1.7x CQ module which turns the FS-60 in the f/10 quadruplet FS-60Q.

[mikeDnight]

Do TMB and LZOS never blacked their lens edges? There seems to be an awful lot of white edge on view.

[JeremyS]

12 hours ago, DirkSteele said:

This might be the smallest one to appear in this thread, but it deserves to be here for one very good reason. The best coatings I have seen on anything, ever. Should that be not seen as if it were not for the small particles of dust, this thing is invisible. 
 

The Takahashi 1.7x CQ module which turns the FS-60 in the f/10 quadruplet FS-60Q.

You’ve gotta be pulling our leg Matthew: surely there’s no lens in that at all? 🤔

Or is it that those coatings on Tak lenses really are as close to perfection as it’s possible to get?
 

Between you and me, I made a howler with my Tak Extender CQ 1.7x The other night. I couldn’t see anything through the scope. Then I realised I has left the cover on the lens end when I assembled it 🤫

[DirkSteele]

8 hours ago, JeremyS said:

You’ve gotta be pulling our leg Matthew: surely there’s no lens in that at all? 🤔

Or is it that those coatings on Tak lenses really are as close to perfection as it’s possible to get?
 

Between you and me, I made a howler with my Tak Extender CQ 1.7x The other night. I couldn’t see anything through the scope. Then I realised I has left the cover on the lens end when I assembled it 🤫

Ha! Snap. Been there, got the T-shirt.

 

Certainly panic for a second or two until the penny drops.

Edited August 5, 2020 by DirkSteele
Typo

[JeremyS]

6 hours ago, DirkSteele said:

Ha! Snap. Been there, got the T-shirt.

 

Certainly panic for a second or two until the penny drops.

Phew, if a sensible chap you you, Matthew, can make this sort of mistake, it makes me feel a lot better! 🙂

The weird thing is that I could see the reflectio of my eye in the Panoptic eyepiece!

 

[John]

On 04/08/2020 at 06:18, DirkSteele said:

I find it amazing that a scope can be put into production that has such low sales numbers.

 

A shame more have not been sold as many more astronomers need to experience what can be described as LZOS’ 9th symphony.

I agree. My 130mm F/9.2 performs fabulously. Probably the best optics I have ever observed through

Oddly, my most "transparent" objective, photographically anyway, seems to be the ED120:

 

 

I don't know what glass / coatings are used on the Nagler 31mm but the field lens of that seems to "disappear" as well.

[Mark at Beaufort]

I feel so out of this thread not having a refractor - why did I sell my 4" Astro Tech ED frac???

Anyway here is a recent photo of a large frac that I was allowed to check over.

[Mark at Beaufort]

Just in case anyone wondered this is the 36inch refractor at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, CA. I was shown around by two professional astronomers who offered me the chance to view through it. Unfortunately the night they offered was the day of my return flight to the UK.

Sorry Jeremy it was too big to lick 🙂

[garryblueboy]

Just a few scrummy Glasses 

 

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by garryblueboy

[JeremyS]

3 hours ago, garryblueboy said:

Just a few scrummy Glasses

Did I spot a new one in the mix there Garry?

[garryblueboy]

18 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Did I spot a new one in the mix there Garry?

No Jeremy no new one for a while I’m sort of settled 😂😉

[DirkSteele]

Wow, a lot of yummy glass there @garryblueboy

 

Your TMB 115 is even older than mine (no 142).

[rl]

 

From the UK corner....6" triplet made by John Owen circa 1991. None of your fancy  coatings or ED glass...just your plain vanilla crown-flint-crown and it works a treat.  Which reminds me.. I was going to get the blackboard paint out and tart up the cell a bit!

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by rl

[garryblueboy]

19 minutes ago, DirkSteele said:

Wow, a lot of yummy glass there @garryblueboy

 

Your TMB 115 is even older than mine (no 142).

Yes it’s one of the earlier ones 

[Highburymark]

Lovely little Equinox 80ED, passed on to pastures new, Takahashi FC-100DC, and understated TeleVue 85, in night mode and day mode with 70mm Solarscope filters

[iPeace]

(Stanley, my TV-85:) "You want me to show them my WHAT?!"

(Me:) "Ah, never mind."

[Highburymark]

36 minutes ago, iPeace said:

(Stanley, my TV-85:) "You want me to show them my WHAT?!"

(Me:) "Ah, never mind."

If not Stanley, then what about ‘Bjorn’ Mike?

[Slingshot]

On 04/07/2020 at 15:56, Corncrake said:

 

" Send it back , it has no eyepiece "

", but I ordered a focal reducer "

Caption competition anyone ?

 

Harlow : "Are you sure we look through this end, what does the * manual say Albert ? "

 

 

Cabin fever ?

 

 

 

No we'll have to move it again according to this new council lighting street and amenity map!!