TEC140

[ollypenrice]

'Get it dirty! Use it!!!'

'But what if I want to sell it?'

'You won't.'

🤣lly

[Jonk]

30 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

'Get it dirty! Use it!!!'

'But what if I want to sell it?'

'You won't.'

🤣lly

She’s a keeper!

First light was going well but the clouds are fighting back now.

Incredible view of Mars at 280x!

Waiting to try and do some imaging at the mo, never tried Mars before.

Edited November 6, 2020 by Jonk

[Jonk]

Clouds have moved along!

[Jonk]

Well the clouds have finally won, so time to pack up.

I couldn't resist another sweep visually though... so in goes the 36mm Hyperion.

1st to the Pleiades - yep, still there and looking good!

Then to M33, something there...maybe.

Double cluster quickly....one of my favourites!

Clouds and murk are too much now.

Not much of a first light report, but I will process the Mars captures as and when I can.

All in all, I'm going to enjoy this scope!

[Space Hopper]

Congratulations on your purchase.

Decent scopes those Tec140's.....

[Stu]

4 hours ago, Jonk said:

How about this? 😆

Fabulous, not jealous at all!!!!! 👍👍🤣🤣. Look forward to hearing about first light, sure you will love it.

[newbie alert]

11 hours ago, Jonk said:

How about this? 😆

I can see there's a fault in the bubble wrap, tell you what, send it to me for a thorough in depth test.. might take a few months, years even.. but I will cure that bubble wrap fault🤔

[Space Hopper]

One thing i like about mine is how quick it cools down outside to reach ambient temperature ; much quicker than any other scope i've owned.

Oil spaced optics are better in that regard. I do take care with mine in that regard as the middle element is quite fragile, so i need to make

sure its not exposed to any big quick changes in temperature.

[david_taurus83]

14 hours ago, Jonk said:

She’s a keeper!

First light was going well but the clouds are fighting back now.

Incredible view of Mars at 280x!

Waiting to try and do some imaging at the mo, never tried Mars before.

Thats a beast! I thought that was an EQ5 at first glance!

Congrats!

[tooth_dr]

Wow what a big refractor!  All the best with it.

[Davey-T]

20 hours ago, Jonk said:

She’s a keeper!

First light was going well but the clouds are fighting back now.

Incredible view of Mars at 280x!

Waiting to try and do some imaging at the mo, never tried Mars before.

Looking good Jon, I'd have felt really guilty if I'd bought it and deprived you of the pleasure 😂

Dave

[Jonk]

1 hour ago, Davey-T said:

Looking good Jon, I'd have felt really guilty if I'd bought it and deprived you of the pleasure 😂

Dave

Somehow I don’t believe you!

[Jonk]

Well, I've been playing with my Mars video clips and here's a first light result.

I'm not a planetary imager by any means but thought I'd have a go. It's not the best, but I got to video 4 and thought I'll be here for days trying to get the best, they're probably all very similar!

I used a ZWO 178MC, Televue 2.5x powermate and firecapture to capture the frames, followed by autostakkert, PI and a bit of lightroom.

The conditions weren't great - put it this way, I wouldn't have bothered trying to do some DSO work, it wasn't that kind of night.

Anyway, pleased I suppose with the Mars image - it certainly looked good visually, if a little wobbly.

I'm sure given the right conditions I could get a better result.

Edit - I had to use a diagonal as I didn't have another way to couple the powermate to the collet on the focuser.

 

Edited November 7, 2020 by Jonk

[reezeh]

If only I had the moolah 😢

[Jonk]

If you've never had a dream, then you've never had a dream come true. I didn't think I would be able to buy something like this, but it happened.