Your refractor - let's see it

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Re: Your refractor - let's see it

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Have this one coming soon.
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I've been lusting after the AT92. A bit pricey for the hobby budget right now though.
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Re: Your refractor - let's see it

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Yes the AT92 is pricey Too bad you are not closer I'd let you try the AT 152 I have.
Astro-Tech AT 152EDT Ioptron GEM 45 Mount AKA FracZilla
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AT 92 on IEQ 30 Pro AKA ClusterZilla
Home Made 8 inch Newtonian Reflector on Rocker Box AKA Scopezilla
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@fatkitty
I had that same Tasco refractor when I was about 14!
Granted, it was the 1989 model, not 1961, but it looked almost identical. 30 years later they weren't making the tripod out of wood, and shipping it in a cardboard box.

Here's my refractor today:
Lunt Engineering 102mm Achromat, ready for the autoguider connection.:
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dagadget wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:04 am Yes the AT92 is pricey Too bad you are not closer I'd let you try the AT 152 I have.
That would be like feeding a stray cat. D*mned thing would never leave. :lol:
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pakarinen wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 1:13 pm
dagadget wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:04 am Yes the AT92 is pricey Too bad you are not closer I'd let you try the AT 152 I have.
That would be like feeding a stray cat. D*mned thing would never leave. :lol:
That is ok I happen to like stray cats especially if I tame them. :sprefac:
Astro-Tech AT 152EDT Ioptron GEM 45 Mount AKA FracZilla
Celestron C11 Carbon Fiber CGEM II Mount AKA Cloudzilla
Sky Watcher Mak Cas 180 Ioptron IEQ 30 AKA MoonZilla
AT 92 on IEQ 30 Pro AKA ClusterZilla
Home Made 8 inch Newtonian Reflector on Rocker Box AKA Scopezilla
Celestron 4 1/2 114 mm Newtonian Telescope 910 F/L GT Mount AKA Frankenscope.


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My three refractors on my new SkyTee II. Change the video quality to 480. Left click the bottom image.

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Good music choice!
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Having posted a photo of my largest aperture refractor earlier in this thread, here is my smallest, a Takahashi FC100-DL:
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Cats: Lomo mini mak, Acuter Maksy 60, Celestron C5 XLT
Refractors: Tak FC60NZ, Vixen custom 60/910, Vixen FL102s, Vixen Ozuma, Zeiss Telementor II, , Goto Kogaku 65mm, Nippon Kogaku 65mm, etc
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Hi and welcome! A lovely collection!!!

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Telescopes: 12" f5 dob, Celestron CPC800, 150mmf5 Celestron achro, Tak TSA102, TV76, ETX125...
Binos: Steiner Wildlife XP 10x26, Swarovski 8x30 Habicht, Zeiss SFL 8x40, Vanguard Endeavour 10.5x45, Fuji FMTR-SX 10x50, Tak 22x60, Orion Resolux 15x70
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DeanD wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 4:18 am Hi and welcome! A lovely collection!!!

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Thanks! always nice to see fellows form down here!
Cats: Lomo mini mak, Acuter Maksy 60, Celestron C5 XLT
Refractors: Tak FC60NZ, Vixen custom 60/910, Vixen FL102s, Vixen Ozuma, Zeiss Telementor II, , Goto Kogaku 65mm, Nippon Kogaku 65mm, etc
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Here are mine...

Vixen 81S
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APM 152 ED-Apo
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WilliamPaolini wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:30 am Here are mine...

Vixen 81S
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81s surely becoming modern classic. I wonder how it fares with FL80s or the old ED80s
Interestingly enough the barrel is apparently interchangeable!
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That is interesting that the barrels are interchangeable. Love when that happens. But probably because they simply used the same source for the barrel. As example, I had a Rini 5x Barlow where the chromed barrel and lens cell were interchangeable with the TV 2x Barlow. So if I put the TV cell on the Rini body then it operated at 2.5x. But both made of the same heavy gauge components.
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8" f/5 Newt - Lunt 152 f/7.9 - TSA 102 f/8 - Vixen 81S f/7.7 - P.S.T. - Pentax 65ED II - Nikon 12x50 AE
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My new scope, have had it for about two weeks now, a Tak FC100DC F7.4.
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80mm, f4.1 with a focusable 2" eyepiece. 11x crystal clear views. A wonderful scope for $150 C., a quick change of pace from my larger scopes (6).
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My AT 152EDT and My AT 72EDII inside the Sky Shed Pod at current time. Bothe are awesome scopes and the AT 72 really kills it on Star Clusters.
Astro-Tech AT 152EDT Ioptron GEM 45 Mount AKA FracZilla
Celestron C11 Carbon Fiber CGEM II Mount AKA Cloudzilla
Sky Watcher Mak Cas 180 Ioptron IEQ 30 AKA MoonZilla
AT 92 on IEQ 30 Pro AKA ClusterZilla
Home Made 8 inch Newtonian Reflector on Rocker Box AKA Scopezilla
Celestron 4 1/2 114 mm Newtonian Telescope 910 F/L GT Mount AKA Frankenscope.


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AT 92inPOD.jpg
My AT 92 in my sky shed pod on my sky shed Pier ready for Florida observing season. The pier is sand filled for vibration control, The telescope has a 2 inch diagonal and a Meade QX 26 2 inch eyepiece on it at present for a magnification of 19.46X and a Field of view of 3.6 degrees. so it will work well as a alignment eyepiece to start.
Astro-Tech AT 152EDT Ioptron GEM 45 Mount AKA FracZilla
Celestron C11 Carbon Fiber CGEM II Mount AKA Cloudzilla
Sky Watcher Mak Cas 180 Ioptron IEQ 30 AKA MoonZilla
AT 92 on IEQ 30 Pro AKA ClusterZilla
Home Made 8 inch Newtonian Reflector on Rocker Box AKA Scopezilla
Celestron 4 1/2 114 mm Newtonian Telescope 910 F/L GT Mount AKA Frankenscope.


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