Show us your Tak

[F15Rules]

30 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

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

Not Mrs F15Rules, Jeremy..

It was actually hordes of wretched Thunderflies..they can get everywhere, including into scope optics! I've had them get into and behind a laptop screen, and there's no way to remove them.

The thought of the critters getting in behind that Fluorite front element gave me the shudders😱😂!!

So the scope went into her holdall in the house and, thanks to life and weather issues, there she has stayed still today ☺️👍

Dave

 

[The Lapwing]

40 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

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

The irony of those last two posts is frankly staggering. 
 

Anyway….

[F15Rules]

31 minutes ago, The Lapwing said:

The irony of those last two posts is frankly staggering. 
 

Anyway….

I think you'd feel far more at home on the USA Forum! 😂

[Stu]

35 minutes ago, The Lapwing said:

The irony of those last two posts is frankly staggering. 
 

Anyway….

I won’t ask again, please drop this topic and stop causing antagonism between members.

[plyscope]

It is 15 years since I bought my first Takahashi, a nice TSA 102S. It was a fantastic scope and I only let it go to trade for a TSA 120.

[MartianHill]

On 19/11/2023 at 21:25, plyscope said:

It is 15 years since I bought my first Takahashi, a nice TSA 102S. It was a fantastic scope and I only let it go to trade for a TSA 120.

That’s a great scope Andy, which mount are you using ?

[plyscope]

In the photo its a Vixen GPD2 on a Berlebach Uni 18 tripod.  There is also the Rowan AZ100 on a Berlebach Planet.

 

[bosun21]

On 19/11/2023 at 17:38, 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!)😂

My Starfield 102 has 8 or 9 baffles in the focuser tube as well as the main tube being baffled. I kept going cross eyed trying to count them 

[John]

26 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

My Starfield 102 has 8 or 9 baffles in the focuser tube as well as the main tube being baffled. I kept going cross eyed trying to count them 

 

Baffled by baffles 😁

My Vixen has quite few in the focuser drawtube as well plus 4 in the main tube.

 

[Space Hopper]

Quite baffling really......

 

[mikeDnight]

On 07/11/2023 at 22:28, JeremyS said:

Finally we've got a look at what's really inside you're observatory! 😂😂😂

[josefk]

i am loving this scope not only for its big strength (flat and wide) but also for its ability to bring me a nice planetary view from a tiny package. Out last night observing the GRS transit on Jupiter at about minus three degrees...

 

[josefk]

i wouldn't ordinarily post two in a row being the shy and retiring type but this was unusual in my home office this morning - no idea what had caught the rising sun to create this dispersion of sunlight in the (darker) western side of my house just now but i like it...

 

[Franklin]

11 minutes ago, josefk said:

 

I thought Takahashi's were supposed to be free of false colour😁.

[josefk]

i was going to make that comment myself @Franklin - i can honestly say i've never seen those colours in the dark!

[Mr Spock]

Whoah dude, with that level of CA I'd send it back 

[JeremyS]

4 hours ago, josefk said:

i wouldn't ordinarily post two in a row being the shy and retiring type but this was unusual in my home office this morning - no idea what had caught the rising sun to create this dispersion of sunlight in the (darker) western side of my house just now but i like it...

 

Are you preparing to observe The Dark Side of the Moon?

[josefk]

I could have staged it with the album cover if i were a quicker thinker (and a bit sad). "There is no dark side of the moon..."

[Nakedgun]

4 hours ago, josefk said:

I could have staged it with the album cover if i were a quicker thinker (and a bit sad). "There is no dark side of the moon..."

~

"...as a matter of fact, it's all dark."

 

 

 

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[Chaz2b]

On 25/11/2023 at 19:52, Space Hopper said:

Quite baffling really......

 

Blimey it’s the Time Tunnel again!

chaz

[Nakedgun]

20 hours ago, Chaz2b said:

Blimey it’s the Time Tunnel again!

chaz

~

Wow, I hadn't thought about that TV series since I watched my last episode during the initial run when I was age 10.

 

 

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[Merak]

I use the Skywatcher 6x30 finder and Tak diagonals with mine.

On the other side of the cradle on the photo thread screw is a smartphone holder so I can use Astrohopper - this works quite well on a manual altaz mount.  I had to add a washer to get the holder at the right angle.   

I use it on a az4 at the moment but in the future, a mount with slo-mo controls would be nice.    I wouldn't mind a microfocuser and the baader clicklock back but I'm in no rush for those.

 

 

[yuklop]

A FC-100 Classic. 

Its a superb luxury item. The standard by which I judge all other telescopes that come and go. I have the matching original focal reducer to go with it if I ever want to take photos. 

 

[JeremyS]

That is beautiful @yuklop 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[JeremyS]

Video of a Takahashi TOA 150 that I saw on another chat site: