Name the scopes you've owned...

[Naemeth]

While I'm not normally a fan of keeping a thread this old alive (originally posted in 2005!), here goes (by year I acquired just for the sheer fun ).

2012

10x50 Unbranded Binoculars

Skywatcher Heritage 130P

2013

Skywatcher ED80

Astro Systems 6" Newt (F/6)

Skywatcher 250PX Dob

Lyra Optics 66mm F/6 ED (WO ZS66 Clone)

Skywatcher ST80

8x40 Nikon Action EX Binoculars

Vixen 80M

2014

Orion Optics OMC200

Ok, if I can remember right...

... I think I may have missed out a few 80mm and 102mm f5 achro's, but you get the general gist...

Ant

Ant, that is quite a big collection you've had over the years

[Stu]

Ok then....<br />

<br />

1999 Celestron C150 HD 6" reflector, Bird-Jones style on EQ 3-2 mount - Sold<br />

<br />

Sometime in the early/mid 2000's!<br />

Helios 150 f8 - Sold, too much CA!<br />

<br />

2006 Orion Optics OMC200 on Vixen Sphinx mount - just sold!<br />

<br />

Around 2008 Astrotech 106 EDT - still with me<br />

<br />

The last few years have been a blur so dates are even more vague!<br />

<br />

Stellarvue 80ED - sold<br />

<br />

Carton 60 - still with me<br />

<br />

Televue 76 - still with me<br />

<br />

PST - still with me<br />

<br />

Orion Optics SX250 - still with me, and still in bits! Must finish!<br />

<br />

Orion Optics 300mm f6 - latest addition<br />

<br />

Mounts wise, I've had <br />

EQ 3-2 - Sold<br />

Vixen Sphinx - still here but selling<br />

Vixen Porta - Sold<br />

Giro II - Sold<br />

Mini Giro - still with me<br />

AYODigi - recently purchased<br />

<br />

Not so many, and trying to reduce to a manageable number.<br />

<br />

Stu<br />

<br />

[LeeB]

medium length list..

40mm tasco

60mm tasco

10" Orion Optics f4.8

Carton 80mm F15.6 Refractor

Small celestron newtonian bubble scope thing

50mm Opticron Nitrogen filled waterproof spotter

115mm Tal 1

8.5 inch David Hind newtonian, converted to dob

10"  Skywatcher Newt (brought on mount and sold straight away as I already had the OO above)

120mm Bresser/pulsar pro series Refractor

102 f5 celestron refractor

12" F5.3 Orion Optics

[avtaram]

Just a small list.

Celestron 76AZ reflector - Christmas present, not used anymore.

Praktica 10x42 roof prism bins.

WO ZenithStar ZS 71 on Skywatcher AZ GoTo - quick grab and go.

Skywatcher Evostar 120ed ds-pro on EQ5 deluxe mount.

Hoping to join the Dob Mob in the next few months. I want a 12" but may have to settle for a 10" for ease of moving it about.

Avtar

[Mr Spock]

I'll try..

1970s

Prinz 550 60mm refractor

Home built 4½" reflector

Home built 8" reflector

1990s

ST80

Helios Apollo 150mm reflector (rubbish bird-jones type)

OMC 140

Helios 120mm refractor - still own

2000s

Skywatcher 250mm reflector

Celestron 80ED - still own

Celestron C9.25 - still own

[cotterless45]

In order :

Heritage 130

Skyliner 200

SW 150pl

Meade 10" Lightbridge.

Vixen 90

Vixen 102

Celestron C6r.

Nick.

[Matthew]

Mmmmm let me think

16" f6 truss tube dob

13" f7 david lukehurst dob

skywatcher 300p flextube dob

orion optics 12" ultra grade optics dob

celstron c11

intes 715 mak/cass

skywatcher skymax 180 mak/cas

skywatcher ed80

william optics zs 71

skywatcher st80

skywatcher startravel 102

skywatcher skymax 127 mak/cas

orion optics 8" f6 ultra grade optics newtonian

coronado pst

phew I didnt realise Id had so many !

[Steve 1962]

My journey so far....

2009 Skywatcher 100ED Pro f9 - purchased on the basis of a SaN review with an HEQ5 Pro as my first telescope 

2010 William Optics ZS70 - used for AP with the ED100 as a guide scope and an unmodded EOS 400d

2011 Skywatcher 200P - used for AP with ZS70 as guide scope and a modded EOS 1000d -100ED sold

2011 NEQ6 bought - HEQ5 Pro sold

2012 William Optics FLT98 - used for AP with ZS70 as guide scope - 200P sold

2012 Atik 460ex purchased

2012 C9.25 for lunar and planetary work with a DMK21AU618 - currently in cupboard awaiting approval for mount big enough to carry it and the FLT98 in tandem.

also eyeing a Lunt 60mm solar scope......!

[Stu]

Ok then....<br />

<br />

1999 Celestron C150 HD 6" reflector, Bird-Jones style on EQ 3-2 mount - Sold<br />

<br />

Sometime in the early/mid 2000's!<br />

Helios 150 f8 - Sold, too much CA!<br />

<br />

2006 Orion Optics OMC200 on Vixen Sphinx mount - just sold!<br />

<br />

Around 2008 Astrotech 106 EDT - still with me<br />

<br />

The last few years have been a blur so dates are even more vague!<br />

<br />

Stellarvue 80ED - sold<br />

<br />

Carton 60 - still with me<br />

<br />

Televue 76 - still with me<br />

<br />

PST - still with me<br />

<br />

Orion Optics SX250 - still with me, and still in bits! Must finish!<br />

<br />

Orion Optics 300mm f6 - latest addition<br />

<br />

Mounts wise, I've had <br />

EQ 3-2 - Sold<br />

Vixen Sphinx - still here but selling<br />

Vixen Porta - Sold<br />

Giro II - Sold<br />

Mini Giro - still with me<br />

AYODigi - recently purchased<br />

<br />

Not so many, and trying to reduce to a manageable number.<br />

<br />

Stu<br />

<br />

Can't believe I forgot my little William Optics SD66mm, sold and missed still. Also forgot the Vixen 80M, another one which has gone to Jonathan :-)

Stu

[Laurie61]

Most of mine are listed below, selling scopes is something which I never seem to get round to The Fullerscopes was my first proper scope and I have had this since 1978, its spec coupled to 1/8th w optics is too useful to consider parting with. I did have a 4" camera shop newt before this but it was so poor, rectangular secondary, that I would not have given it away and it ended up on the tip. The only other scope, not listed below, is a 12" lx 200 gps which I owned for 3-4 years and sold to a friend to fund the OO scope. Oh and a 4.5" tasco newt out on loan. 

[luminova11]

In chronological order.

50x50 child's refractor

Prinz Optics Varipower Refractor 60mm

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[Joves]

Can't believe I forgot my little William Optics SD66mm, sold and missed still. Also forgot the Vixen 80M, another one which has gone to Jonathan :-)

Stu

Genesis, Stu?!

[Stu]

Eeek, how could I forget that! Haven't had much chance to use it unfortunately.

Stu

[luminova11]

Prinz Astral Varipower 60mm

Tasco Luminova 114/900 reflector on eq1 mount

Hawke Nature Nature-Trek 20-60x80 spotting scope

Skywatcher Heritage 76 mini dob (my son's)

Skywatcher Skyliner 200p Dobsonian Reflector

These are my scopes over the last 33 years from the age of 8. The photos have been pulled off the net but other than the kid's scope I still have all these. The Prinz is on loan to my Dad and the Tasco is in semi-retirement at my son's primary school.

[russ]

Mmmmm let me think

16" f6 truss tube dob

13" f7 david lukehurst dob

skywatcher 300p flextube dob

orion optics 12" ultra grade optics dob

celstron c11

intes 715 mak/cass

skywatcher skymax 180 mak/cas

skywatcher ed80

william optics zs 71

skywatcher st80

skywatcher startravel 102

skywatcher skymax 127 mak/cas

orion optics 8" f6 ultra grade optics newtonian

coronado pst

phew I didnt realise Id had so many !

Don't worry, you've barely owned any telescopes at all. Certainly no telescope addiction to worry about. Check my list on the first page, which i did back in 2005 and then add another 27 scopes to that list..............

I've spent the last 14 years using UK Astro Buy'n'sell (and Astro ads as it was formerly known) as some sort of swap shop..  Great fun indeed.

[Naemeth]

Don't worry, you've barely owned any telescopes at all. Certainly no telescope addiction to worry about. Check my list on the first page, which i did back in 2005 and then add another 27 scopes to that list..............

I've spent the last 14 years using UK Astro Buy'n'sell (and Astro ads as it was formerly known) as some sort of swap shop..  Great fun indeed.

That's about 3 scopes a year - not too bad . I got 6 in 2013 .

Do you have a list of them all?   

[Earl]

Celestron 4 SE

Celestron c6

4SE Clone

114mm nexstar

Meade LX90 8inch

Revelation 80mm

Revelation 100mm

Sw 300mm f5 newt

5 x ST80's

4 x SW ED80's

Stellaview 80ed F7

Meade 80mm f6

altair 80mm

SW skymax 127

SW Skymax 180

Orion 8inch f6 newt

Celestron 9.25

Celestron C11

SW 250px dob

SW 250-pds

WO WS72

Takahashi FSQ 85

Celestron C11 CF

WO ZS71

Takahashi Sky 90

Takahashi 10ED

and probably a few others inbetween i have forgotten about LOL

[Naemeth]

Earl, how come you've had 5 ST80s? Did you have to sell and re-buy them?

[Earl]

Earl, how come you've had 5 ST80s? Did you have to sell and re-buy them?

 

Yes they have come and gone lots over the years as have ed80's

[emadmoussa]

National Geographic 75mm Reflector

Un-branded 60m refractor

Skywatcher Explorer 200P

Skywatcher Evostar 80ED

Skywatcher ST90

TS Individual 152/900 refractor

Starwave 102ED refractor

GSO 10" Dobsonian

Celestron C11 XLT

Celestron Bins

Skywatcher Skyliner Flextube 12 inch.

[Marki]

Celestron 8SE  (now sold)

Tal 100RS

Starwave 100 ED (now sold)

Skywatcher Equinox 80mm APO

Tal 125R

Skylight 4" f13 

Istar Perseus 150mm f10

[L8-Nite]

Though I don't have them all, I've owned eight astronomical telescopes over the years since 1965,

which averages out to about one scope every six years. 

60mm x 1000 Carton Refractor

50 or 60mm ( Sears ? ) Refractor - my frst scope when I was young.

63mm x 840 Zeiss Telementor Refractor

76mm x 1200 Sears Discoverer Refractor

89mm x 1300 Questar Maksutov

114mm x 900 Pencrest Newtonian 

127mm x 1270 Intes-Micro Alter M500 Maksutov

178mm x 2540 Questar 7 Maksutov

Bucket list .......

Win lottery

Dark Site Observing Property

18" Mag -1 Portaball Dobsonian

150mm Zeiss APQ Refractor

Edit: Time to enjoy it all.  

[John]

   

Yes they have come and gone lots over the years as have ed80's

I can think of a few scopes that I have owned more than once:

4 Celestron C5 SCT's

3 ED80's

3 Helios 8" F/5 newtonians

There are probably others as well but they have faded from memory !

[russ]

I can think of a few scopes that I have owned more than once:

4 Celestron C5 SCT's

3 ED80's

3 Helios 8" F/5 newtonians

There are probably others as well but they have faded from memory !

The Skymax 127 and ED80 are probably the scope i've owned the most.

[John]

The Skymax 127 and ED80 are probably the scope i've owned the most.

I can understand why Russ. I can recall looking through your sons (or was it yours ?) Skymax 127 at the SGL star party a few years back and having a really lovely view of Saturn 

I'm starting to want a nice 5"-6" mak-cass again just thinking about it !