Your refractor - let's see it

[StarHugger]

A couple more...

[messier 111]

My setups are always changing through the course of seasons and vantage points...indoors and outdoors so here are some various moments in time with my little friends...

My At80, 70 & 50

very nice setup , thx .

[nickarp2000]

Here's my new starfield 102 Ed Doublet with 0.8x reducer/flattened and ASI585MC.
OAG is also fitted with ASI120mm.
Sorry but since I received it last week the weather has been shockingly bad.
Expected first light somewhere around January in the next decade by the look of the forecast.

[Mike Q]

Well here it is. The AT102EDL on a iOptron AZ pro mount and tripod. I am impressed with both the scope and the iOpton mount. Hopefully the clouds will clear soon and i will actually be able to give it a try. While it wont compete with my big dobs in the deep sky it should do the brighter stuff and in just fine. It should be the perfect travel scope.

[SkyHiker]

Here are my fracs, an ES ED127CF and an ES ED80. The 127 was a free door prize at the RTMC, in 2015 IIRC. I recently moved my AP rig over from the 6" Mak-Newt MN152 and 12" GSO F/4 Newt astrograph. I got frustrated with collimation and flexure issues of the latter. The 127 worked fine but the 80 has some alignment issues that I need to figure out.

The wiring mess looks the same for both scopes. It's not too bad, and they have the same stock focuser, so I had to figure the focuser bracket out just once.

[Caldwell 14]

Here’s mine. My one and only scope, a Tele Vue 102

[helicon]

Here’s mine. My one and only scope, a Tele Vue 102

Nice!

[Caldwell 14]

Thank you, she (Tilley) is my forever scope! First time I didn’t have my eye on something else.

[Caldwell 14]

My long sought NP101. They are very rare to come across up here in Canada.


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Nice. Great when a plan comes together isn’t it. My TV 102 was equally difficult to come by this side of the pond. There can’t be more than a handful of 102’s this side of the pond and you never see them for sale. We see a few 101’s from time to time at star parties, but no one is selling them. When folks know they are on to a good thing they tend to keep hold of them.