Welcome to "The Baby Taka"

[Fedele]

I told my wife that I found it abandoned on the side of a road and that out of pity I took it home. Increase the Taka family with "The Little Taka".
It will be used for Solar in Ha alpha with Daystar, riech filed, grab and go

i need suggestions on the support (rings, cradle, etc?)

Edited March 4, 2022 by Fedele

[Roy Challen]

Very cute, if you feed it and look after it, it'll grow to be a TOA 150 one day😂

[Davesellars]

Looks great!!!

These More Blue rings look to be a much more flexible solution that the Tak cradle...

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/tube-rings/more-blue-80mm-tube-mounting-rings.html

together with 4" ADM vixen rail you'd be set unless you need a finder....

Edited March 4, 2022 by Davesellars

[Fedele]

Just now, Roy Challen said:

Molto carino, se lo dai da mangiare e te ne prendi cura, un giorno crescerà fino a diventare un TOA 150😂

hahahah

[Stu]

Should work well, nice full disk views possible.

I use More Blue rings and dovetail on mine now, the Quark image was from a previous one I owned a few years back.

[MalcolmM]

Lovely scope!

Did your wife believe you? Even she must know no-one would ever leave a Tak on the roadside!

I casually mentioned to my partner weeks ago I was debating whether or not to get a Mewlon 180. She said, so when's it arriving  

I like the smaller of the two applicable cradles (I think it looks nice )

I have 2 cradles, one on a Vixen dovetail and one on the Manfrotto mount. It makes it really easy to switch the scope from grab and go to something more stable.

Only problem might be with a heavy eyepiece (Daystar Quark?) you might have trouble balancing?

I normally have to have the scope pushed as far forward as it can go in the cradle, though a long dovetail would solve that.

 

[Zermelo]

4 hours ago, Fedele said:

I found it abandoned on the side of a road

Nicely done.
Now you've got me wondering if I could explain a Stellalyra dob, left in a large basket on my doorstep, with a note saying "please look after this scope".

[Fedele]

[Justin P]

9 minutes ago, Fedele said:

An ‘annoyingly’ good looking setup 😁