Your refractor - let's see it
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very nice setup , thx .StarHugger wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:56 pm 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
I LOVE REFRACTORS ,
REFRACTOR , TS-Optics Doublet SD-APO 125 mm f/7.8 . Lunt 80mm MT Ha Doublet Refractor .
EYEPIECES, Delos , Delite and 26mm Nagler t5 , 2 zoom Svbony 7-21 , Orion Premium Linear BinoViewer .
FILTER , Nebustar 2 tele vue . Apm solar wedge . contrast booster 2 inches .
Mounts , cg-4 motorized , eq6 pro belt drive .
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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REFRACTOR , TS-Optics Doublet SD-APO 125 mm f/7.8 . Lunt 80mm MT Ha Doublet Refractor .
EYEPIECES, Delos , Delite and 26mm Nagler t5 , 2 zoom Svbony 7-21 , Orion Premium Linear BinoViewer .
FILTER , Nebustar 2 tele vue . Apm solar wedge . contrast booster 2 inches .
Mounts , cg-4 motorized , eq6 pro belt drive .
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Isaac Asimov
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Here's my new starfield 102 Ed Doublet with 0.8x reducer/flattened and ASI585MC.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Here’s mine. My one and only scope, a Tele Vue 102
Scope: TV 102
Mount: TV Gibraltar HD4
Oculars: TV 3 mm - 6 mm Nagler Zoom, 7mm, 9mm, 13mm Delite, 32mm Plossl
Filter: TV Nebustar Bandmate UHC
Mount: TV Gibraltar HD4
Oculars: TV 3 mm - 6 mm Nagler Zoom, 7mm, 9mm, 13mm Delite, 32mm Plossl
Filter: TV Nebustar Bandmate UHC
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Nice!
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Refractors: ES AR152 f/6.5 Achromat on Twilight II, Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.8 on Celestron Heavy Duty Alt Az mount, KOWA 90mm spotting scope
Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster 15x70, Bushnell 10x50
Eyepieces: Various, GSO Superview, 9mm Plossl, Celestron 25mm Plossl
Camera: ZWO ASI 120
Naked Eye: Two Eyeballs
Latitude: 48.7229° N
Refractors: ES AR152 f/6.5 Achromat on Twilight II, Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.8 on Celestron Heavy Duty Alt Az mount, KOWA 90mm spotting scope
Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster 15x70, Bushnell 10x50
Eyepieces: Various, GSO Superview, 9mm Plossl, Celestron 25mm Plossl
Camera: ZWO ASI 120
Naked Eye: Two Eyeballs
Latitude: 48.7229° N
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Thank you, she (Tilley) is my forever scope! First time I didn’t have my eye on something else.
Scope: TV 102
Mount: TV Gibraltar HD4
Oculars: TV 3 mm - 6 mm Nagler Zoom, 7mm, 9mm, 13mm Delite, 32mm Plossl
Filter: TV Nebustar Bandmate UHC
Mount: TV Gibraltar HD4
Oculars: TV 3 mm - 6 mm Nagler Zoom, 7mm, 9mm, 13mm Delite, 32mm Plossl
Filter: TV Nebustar Bandmate UHC
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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.
Scope: TV 102
Mount: TV Gibraltar HD4
Oculars: TV 3 mm - 6 mm Nagler Zoom, 7mm, 9mm, 13mm Delite, 32mm Plossl
Filter: TV Nebustar Bandmate UHC
Mount: TV Gibraltar HD4
Oculars: TV 3 mm - 6 mm Nagler Zoom, 7mm, 9mm, 13mm Delite, 32mm Plossl
Filter: TV Nebustar Bandmate UHC
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