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Hello all,

Yesterday evening at a RASC star party, I had a chance to look through a nice Stellarvue 80 with Lomo glass. The owner (my friend Darren) has had this scope for years, and I could see why. Very nicely built, great mechanics, and it was decent on the moon and Jupiter. It did well on M13 and M44 too.

My first exposure to a SV refractor, and what a nice little scope it was. The build quality was really good. :)

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Thank you for your report Ian.
Ever since Bryan got his SV I have been reading their info and watching videos about them. I have never had the opportunity to observe through one yet.
Maybe one day... :-)
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Hi Ian!

Glad you got a peek!

I really like my SV. How much?

We are under a tornado watch here until 0100 hrs. and more to come tomorrow. I have the Weather Channel on and am monitoring. Got a pretty nasty one on the ground right now in the county just west of me.

My storm shelter is in the garage floor, it is opened and prepped and ready.

So as soon as we get warned and the neighborhood siren kicks off (if it does), I will go first to rouse the boy out of his bed, grab the cat and tuck him under my left arm, pick up the SV in its case with my right and head to the shelter. :lol:

It is sitting right here beside my chair. :D
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Scopes: Apertura AD12 f/5; Celestron C6-R f/8; ES AR127 f/6.4; Stellarvue SV102T f/7; iOptron MC90 f/13.3; Orion ST80A f/5; ES ED80 f/6; Celestron Premium 80 f/11.4; Celestron C80 f/11.4; Unitron Model 142 f/16; Meade NG60 f/10
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bladekeeper wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 3:50 am Hi Ian!

Glad you got a peek!

I really like my SV. How much?

We are under a tornado watch here until 0100 hrs. and more to come tomorrow. I have the Weather Channel on and am monitoring. Got a pretty nasty one on the ground right now in the county just west of me.

My storm shelter is in the garage floor, it is opened and prepped and ready.

So as soon as we get warned and the neighborhood siren kicks off (if it does), I will go first to rouse the boy out of his bed, grab the cat and tuck him under my left arm, pick up the SV in its case with my right and head to the shelter. :lol:

It is sitting right here beside my chair. :D

Dang! :o The boy, the cat, the SV. My future may be fuzzy, but I think I see a SV there somewhere. 8-) :lol:
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Fracs: Stellarvue 70T f6; SW 120mm Esprit f7; "Mark Mk. II" - 60 mm Tasco f6; C80 frac f 11.4
SCT: C8 Edge f10 or f7 with reducer
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Mounts - Ioptron Skyguider pro, Astro Physics GTO900
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Skysafari 6 Pro, Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight - using Mac tablet and ASIair pro to run the AP rig.

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SV refractors are quite worthy of respect. They are in the top tier of instruments optically.

From my former dark site my SV ED80 Access (Strehl = 0.991 in green in case anyone has forgotten ;) ) I was able to get the Horsehead Nebula (with an H beta filter) and gorgeous details around M42, the Flaming Star nebula. I could get spiral arms in M51 and M81 with dust details in M82. M104's dust lane was striking. PLUS a great view of M31 with dust lanes.

It is optically the most perfect instrument I have had to use in ~65 years of observing that included scopes from Alvan Clark, Zeiss and Astro Physics. There are minor mechanical quibbles compared to the Zeiss but... :lol:
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I have not had the opportunity to view through one of these older SV 80 but they seem to have a good reputation and sell used quite quickly.
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Lady Fraktor wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 5:53 pm I have not had the opportunity to view through one of these older SV 80 but they seem to have a good reputation and sell used quite quickly.
:) The views of M44 using his 24 mm Panoptic were otherworldly. Very finely detailed images, probably a bit better than my long-focus C80/Vixen.
Ian

Fracs: Stellarvue 70T f6; SW 120mm Esprit f7; "Mark Mk. II" - 60 mm Tasco f6; C80 frac f 11.4
SCT: C8 Edge f10 or f7 with reducer
Dob: 14.5" homebuilt strut dob (f4.5 ZOC mirror), Nexus II, Moonlite focuser
Mounts - Ioptron Skyguider pro, Astro Physics GTO900
Cameras and lenses - ZWO 2600 mc, 290 mm mini, Canon 60D modded with Rokinon 10mm 2.8; Rokinon 135mm f2

Skysafari 6 Pro, Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight - using Mac tablet and ASIair pro to run the AP rig.

"Mothers! It is there!" - Rafael Gonzales-Acuna, 2018.
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