TheSkySearchers

Have this one coming soon.

I've been lusting after the AT92. A bit pricey for the hobby budget right now though.

Yes the AT92 is pricey Too bad you are not closer I'd let you try the AT 152 I have.

@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.:

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.

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.

That is ok I happen to like stray cats especially if I tame them.

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

Good music choice!

Having posted a photo of my largest aperture refractor earlier in this thread, here is my smallest, a Takahashi FC100-DL:

My summer imaging rig.
StellarVue SV70T

I got some..
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Hi and welcome! A lovely collection!!!

- Dean

DeanD wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 4:18 am Hi and welcome! A lovely collection!!!

- Dean

Thanks! always nice to see fellows form down here!

Here are mine...

Vixen 81S TSA-102
APM 152 ED-Apo

WilliamPaolini wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:30 am Here are mine...

Vixen 81S

81s surely becoming modern classic. I wonder how it fares with FL80s or the old ED80s
Interestingly enough the barrel is apparently interchangeable!
https://ryu02801.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-103.html

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.

My new scope, have had it for about two weeks now, a Tak FC100DC F7.4.

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).

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.

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.