bosun21 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 21 hours ago, Kon said: Not the post man but me doing a 5hr round trip to Essex to collect an almost brand new 12" goto. 8" next to it for comparison. Great acquisition Kostas. You definitely won't miss the faff with having to manually track the target. Looking forward to see what you can do with the extra 4" of aperture. I'm done now with this apparition but looking forward to their reappearance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telescope40 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 1 hour ago, Saganite said: This Lyra Optic 102mm f11 was collected a week ago but had first light last night. Steve @Saganite That setup looks the business. 👍👍👍 John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Thanks John, only took 71 years to get here......🤣 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeDnight Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 1 hour ago, Saganite said: This Lyra Optic 102mm f11 was collected a week ago but had first light last night. Looks fantastic Steve. Just like a real astronomer! My heart is still skipping beats!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callisto Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 2 hours ago, Stu1smartcookie said: I recognise that scope ... its certainly found a wonderful home Yes it has...I want to live there 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 2 hours ago, bosun21 said: Great acquisition Kostas. You definitely won't miss the faff with having to manually track the target. Looking forward to see what you can do with the extra 4" of aperture. I'm done now with this apparition but looking forward to their reappearance. Thanks Ian. I am very excited for first light. Yes my planetary season is also over but the moon will be a good target to get any teething out of the way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieDvd Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 3 hours ago, Saganite said: This Lyra Optic 102mm f11 was collected a week ago but had first light last night. A telescope for all ages: The actual scope you have, but now in hands of a more skilled user. 🙂 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 3 hours ago, mikeDnight said: Looks fantastic Steve. Just like a real astronomer! If only ! Hmm , second time this week that I have said that...😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeDnight Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 5 hours ago, Saganite said: This Lyra Optic 102mm f11 was collected a week ago but had first light last night. How are you liking your Az 100 Steve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 How long have got Mike ? I have had it for two and half years and not yet run out of superlatives. It is a magnificent Alt Az mount, fitted with motors and controlled from my mobile phone, I can do what Iike with it. Last night I pointed it South, made sure the scope was level, switched on the motors, selected Jupiter as my first alignment target, followed by Betelgeuse as my second, less than 90 seconds. I went back to Jupiter and started observing. Within 15 minutes or so , out came the clouds so I went in sat by the fire and returned over an hour later to find a beautiful dark clear sky, seeing was Pickering 6 at least. Jupiter was still in the FOV, so I carried on observing until about midnight. The GOTO is great, but if I want to just swing the scope around the sky looking at this and that, and occasionally banging my head on the scope and knocking it away, I only have to look at my phone stab my finger onto a target and it is there. I may yet change a scope or two in what remains of my life but I will not need a change of mount. The Rowan boys Dave and Derek should have produced this mount decades ago ! I have in the last 6 months purchased two plates from them . Both just attach to the mount with the dovetail saddles then attached to them and one adjusts in a Y axis so that the total weight of both scopes is so balanced they will rotate 360 degrees and stay in any position with an adjustable weight to compensate for a single eyepiece or a fully laden bino. The other plate on the other side of the mount adjusts so that both scopes point precisely at the same object. I now have observing Nirvana. Quite happy to bore you with more about this when we meet at PAS in March if you would like me to Mike.... 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greymouser Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 (edited) Got these a while ago, but didn't post them up here, because I was just too busy. The mount has remained in it's box for a few weeks!!! A Sightron mount, ( its tiny! ) three dew straps and an Oiii filter. Cant stand the clamp that came with the mount, so instantly replaced by an Astro Essential one: Can't stand marred vixen bars! Edit: Now I just have to learn Japanese, cos the tiny manual is just in that and very small! Edited January 31 by Greymouser 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalcolmP Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) A very modest little investment - 20m active USB cable. Now I will be able to stay in the warm while my DSLR+lens continues its EAA experiment outside assuming I can find some software that will work on my old win7, NINA wants win 10 or 11, and Sharpcap protests that my processor lacks an instruction set ( that's a new one, never had that before ! ) Edited February 1 by MalcolmP 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) Duplicated post. Edited February 1 by Saganite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 On 31/01/2024 at 13:16, Stu1smartcookie said: I recognise that scope ... its certainly found a wonderful home It has indeed Stu. Just spent an hour in the Obsy 'fiddling and faffing' but all is ready for tonight... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15Rules Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Its been nice here today and I'd thought of getting the old Vixen achro out for an hour..but clouds have rolled in..so that's another fireside evening tonight then..been a LOT of them this winter!!🤦♂️🤪 Dave 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) The seeing is not that good and the sky is clouding up, so that sounds like a plan Dave .🤣 Edited February 1 by Saganite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurenceT Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Having sold my EQ5 Goto a few days ago I retired my Az GTi from EQ mode last night with a few hours on the Pleiades, it's going back to AZ mode because today I welcomed the replacement. After much painful research I decided on this mount to fulfill my modest needs using my small imaging refractors. I decided to buy new because of the QC problems associated with the earlier versions and this morning it passed it's first test, I shook it and nothing rattled! It's marginally lighter than my Az GTi and WO wedge but considerably lighter than my EQ5 which is important to me now. A big thankyou to FLO, 22 hours from placing the order to it arriving at my doorstep. It's also a great day for other reasons. After being stuck on the drive for 6 weeks due to MOT failure my elderly but lovely Mercedes is going in to be repaired, a victim of the worldwide Mercedes subframe corrosion fiasco, Mercedes Germany are forking out over £2,500 to replace the subframe. I didn't have to argue the case, they agreed immediately, good for them. It's also our youngest daughters birthday 🥰. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu1smartcookie Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 3 minutes ago, LaurenceT said: Having sold my EQ5 Goto a few days ago I retired my Az GTi from EQ mode last night with a few hours on the Pleiades, it's going back to AZ mode because today I welcomed the replacement. After much painful research I decided on this mount to fulfill my modest needs using my small imaging refractors. I decided to buy new because of the QC problems associated with the earlier versions and this morning it passed it's first test, I shook it and nothing rattled! It's marginally lighter than my Az GTi and WO wedge but considerably lighter than my EQ5 which is important to me now. A big thankyou to FLO, 22 hours from placing the order to it arriving at my doorstep. It's also a great day for other reasons. After being stuck on the drive for 6 weeks due to MOT failure my elderly but lovely Mercedes is going in to be repaired, a victim of the worldwide Mercedes subframe corrosion fiasco, Mercedes Germany are forking out over £2,500 to replace the subframe. I didn't have to argue the case, they agreed immediately, good for them. It's also our youngest daughters birthday 🥰. nice one Laurance ... something i am looking at as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Cat Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Tube rings for my Orion Xt8. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnturley Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 2 hours ago, LaurenceT said: Having sold my EQ5 Goto a few days ago I retired my Az GTi from EQ mode last night with a few hours on the Pleiades, it's going back to AZ mode because today I welcomed the replacement. After much painful research I decided on this mount to fulfill my modest needs using my small imaging refractors. I decided to buy new because of the QC problems associated with the earlier versions and this morning it passed it's first test, I shook it and nothing rattled! It's marginally lighter than my Az GTi and WO wedge but considerably lighter than my EQ5 which is important to me now. A big thankyou to FLO, 22 hours from placing the order to it arriving at my doorstep. It's also a great day for other reasons. After being stuck on the drive for 6 weeks due to MOT failure my elderly but lovely Mercedes is going in to be repaired, a victim of the worldwide Mercedes subframe corrosion fiasco, Mercedes Germany are forking out over £2,500 to replace the subframe. I didn't have to argue the case, they agreed immediately, good for them. It's also our youngest daughters birthday 🥰. Would be interested to see what you think of this mount, I was thinking of getting one as a lighter alternative to my AZ-EQ5 mount. The latter was bought to accommodate my ES 127mm Refractor, however the Star Adventurer GTi would probably be adequate for my recently acquired Tak 100 DZ. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyS Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeDnight Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 10 hours ago, JeremyS said: And that makes how many 12.5mm & 9mm Tak eyepieces you now own Jeremy? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glafnazur Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Another addition to my Morpheus collection, just the 14mm to get. And my first TV eyepiece 18.2mm Delite 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuburbanMak Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I was the postman today - great to meet up with @LondonNeil to pass on the Skymax 127. The pang of regret at parting with a much loved ‘scope eased by knowing its going to a good home and by the excitement of heading over to meet up with @astro_al to pick up his lovely Takahashi FS60-Q, complete with Feathertouch focuser. Inevitably cloudy tonight but it’s all looking good on the mount! 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyS Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 6 hours ago, SuburbanMak said: I was the postman today - great to meet up with @LondonNeil to pass on the Skymax 127. The pang of regret at parting with a much loved ‘scope eased by knowing its going to a good home and by the excitement of heading over to meet up with @astro_al to pick up his lovely Takahashi FS60-Q, complete with Feathertouch focuser. Inevitably cloudy tonight but it’s all looking good on the mount! The new FS 60Q looks wonderful, SuburbanTak 👍🏻 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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