Show us your Tak

[JeremyS]

[Telescope40]

15 hours ago, plyscope said:

Here is an old Sky and Telescope magazine advertisement.

How many years ?? Could you take a guess 👍👍. John 

[plyscope]

Between 20 and 30 years ago? FS152 was produced between 1995 and 2005, not sure about the FCT150.

 

 

[globular]

www.lsstnr.com was first registered in April 1997 - so after that.

lsstnr.com now redirects to landseaskyco.com, and this was first registered in Dec 2007 - so probably before that. 

Has a fax number - so probably more likely 1990s than 2000s.

My guess... 1999

 

[Sunshine]

I wonder if Tak America has catalogues? If they do I will order one and ask @JeremyS to show me how to translate it to actual English 😂

Edited November 10, 2023 by Sunshine

[JeremyS]

Testing out the new Tak 4 way turret on the FC 100DZ

[Sunshine]

17 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Testing out the new Tak 4 way turret on the FC 100DZ

Love it! how is the weight? seems like it’s weighty, i can’t imagine that on the end of my 102 with four XW’s on it, lol.

Edited November 10, 2023 by Sunshine

[Peter Drew]

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Looks nice.  I'm surprised it balances at that position considering the total weight of finder, focuser, turret and 4 eyepieces.  I had a turret once but found that the eyepieces not in use became so cold that when brought into use my warm eye caused them to mist up.    🙂 

[Telescope40]

27 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Testing out the new Tak 4 way turret on the FC 100DZ

Jeremy. That looks fantastic and scary all in one package. 
no fear of eyepiece drop ?? 
ATB.  John 

[JeremyS]

40 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Love it! how is the weight? seems like it’s weighty, i can’t imagine that on the end of my 102 with four XW’s on it, lol.

 

39 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

Looks nice.  I'm surprised it balances at that position considering the total weight of finder, focuser, turret and 4 eyepieces.  I had a turret once but found that the eyepieces not in use became so cold that when brought into use my warm eye caused them to mist up.    🙂 

The turret is a fair weight, but probably not much more than the Tak 2-inch diagonal.

This is mainly to have an array of high power high pieces available. These are short FL and the Tak LEs (shown in pic), TPL and TOEs are very lightweight.

Not planning on putting Ethos in 😊

[JeremyS]

31 minutes ago, Telescope40 said:

Jeremy. That looks fantastic and scary all in one package. 
no fear of eyepiece drop ?? 
ATB.  John 

There is always the chance, but unlikely considering the tightness of the EP holder collet screw.

I used to worry about damage to instrumentation, but realised the stuff needs to be used. These days I am more worried about doing myself a mischief moving a tripod and mount around 😳

[dweller25]

Top tip - After many years of using numerous telescopes I have found that you will see more stars/planets/galaxies if you point them away from a wall.

Nice turret 👍

Edited November 10, 2023 by dweller25

[dweller25]

2 hours ago, Sunshine said:

i can’t imagine that on the end of my 102 with four XW’s on it

I can 😈

[bomberbaz]

3 hours ago, JeremyS said:

Testing out the new Tak 4 way turret on the FC 100DZ

Think that will need dew tapes for the same reason @Peter Drew states but it looks a solid setup

[IB20]

58 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

Top tip - After many years of using numerous telescopes I have found that you will see more stars/planets/galaxies if you point them away from a wall.

Nice turret 👍

Jeremy has some cracking views of Rupes Recta. 

[Stu]

Some of the little FS-60Q out this evening for a quick squiz at Saturn.

[DirkSteele]

17 minutes ago, Stu said:

Some of the little FS-60Q out this evening for a quick squiz at Saturn.

It’s been a while since I have used mine. Makes me want to pull the little guy out and give him a session under the stars.

[F15Rules]

No stranger to this thread but not recently, having been in storage literally since  August..🤦‍♂️😏. But...

..My Precious is back! All fettled and ready for the winter season, complete with MBII's and Tak Equatorial😊.

Dave

PS I hadn't realised before..the focuser alone has 5 internal, blackened baffles! (try saying that without your teeth in!)😂

[johnturley]

18 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

No stranger to this thread but not recently, having been in storage literally since  August..🤦‍♂️😏. But...

..My Precious is back! All fettled and ready for the winter season, complete with MBII's and Tak Equatorial😊.

Dave

PS I hadn't realised before..the focuser alone has 5 internal, blackened baffles! (try saying that without your teeth in!)😂

Notice that you have a Skywatcher 9x 50 finder installed in the Tak finder bracket.

I wanted something a bit bigger than the Tak 6 x 30 finder for my recently acquired 100 DZ., but didn't want to pay as much a £330 for the Tak 7 x 50, so purchased a secondhand  (which turned out to be like new) Skywatcher 9 x 50, and installed in the Tak bracket.

John 

John  

Edited November 19, 2023 by johnturley

[John]

Lovely Dave - nice to see a well baffled drawtube 😁

 

[The Lapwing]

On 29/08/2022 at 11:18, Peter Drew said:

I thought we had already seen them all.    🙂

Like a million times each. Out of a sense of fair play shouldn’t this thread be flooded with people who want to ignore the original post title and hijack the thread to talk about the virtues of their TEC/Stellavue/Borg/Televue etc?

Edited November 19, 2023 by The Lapwing

[F15Rules]

1 hour ago, johnturley said:

Notice that you have a Skywatcher 9x 50 finder installed in the Tak finder bracket.

I wanted something a bit bigger than the Tak 6 x 30 finder for my recently acquired 100 DZ., but didn't want to pay as much a £330 for the Tak 7 x 50, so purchased a secondhand  (which turned out to be like new) Skywatcher 9 x 50, and installed in the Tak bracket.

John 

John  

Yes John,

I had the original Tak 50mm finder when I bought my FS128: it was optically superb, but being straight through was literally a pain in the neck!

The original Tak bracket, though, is excellent, far more stable and better at holding alignment than an SW one, so I found a brand new, unused Skywatcher 50mm RACI taken from an Esprit refractor. 

Although not as good as the Tak Optics, it is sharp on axis, goes quite deep and is very comfortable to use.

Dave

[JeremyS]

1 hour ago, F15Rules said:

No stranger to this thread but not recently, having been in storage literally since  August..

Glad Mrs F15Rules let you out, Dave. You must have been well and truly baffled 😮 

[Stu]

37 minutes ago, The Lapwing said:

Like a million times each. Out of a sense of fair play shouldn’t this thread be flooded with people who want to ignore the original post title and hijack the thread to talk about the virtues of their TEC/Stellavue/Borg/Televue etc?

Please, let’s not go back there again. Let’s just be courteous to one another, and not start ‘brand wars’ all over again.

[F15Rules]

46 minutes ago, The Lapwing said:

Like a million times each. Out of a sense of fair play shouldn’t this thread be flooded with people who want to ignore the original post title and hijack the thread to talk about the virtues of their TEC/Stellavue/Borg/Televue etc?

I think you have it all mixed up..

This is a "Show us your Tak" thread.

If you don't like it, why don't you start a "Show us your  TEC/StellaRvue/Borg/Televue" thread instead? 😊

Dave