Scopes cleaned and back on the forum

[alfingido]

Since moving to France a couple of years ago, telescopes had been mothballed and work renovating our house had kept me away from looking further than the damaged chimney pots and guttering. 
Anyway, that’s all fine and the telescopes came out again, but not before noticing dust and fungus growing on the mirrors and objectives. ( Meade LX90 ACF and Celestron Evo 6) 

So, they’re  all cleaned up ( pretty simple job once you pluck up the courage) and just waiting for skies to clear. 
Luckily, we have very dark skies here with incredible views so haven’t missed the scopes too much. 

[laudropb]

Hello and welcome back.

[PeterCPC]

Hello and welcome back.

[Mr Spock]

Welcome back 

[banjaxed]

Hi and welcome back to SGL.

[reezeh]

5 hours ago, alfingido said:

Since moving to France a couple of years ago, telescopes had been mothballed and work renovating our house had kept me away from looking further than the damaged chimney pots and guttering. 
Anyway, that’s all fine and the telescopes came out again, but not before noticing dust and fungus growing on the mirrors and objectives. ( Meade LX90 ACF and Celestron Evo 6) 

So, they’re  all cleaned up ( pretty simple job once you pluck up the courage) and just waiting for skies to clear. 
Luckily, we have very dark skies here with incredible views so haven’t missed the scopes too much. 

I'm curious: how did you clean the fungus off? 

 

And with very dark skies I would be crying if I was deprived of some optical assistance! 

[sloz1664]

Hi, and a very warm welcome back to the Lounge and with nice clean scopes, too boot 

Steve

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi there and welcome back. 

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂