Hi.

For do something diferent, I thought we could put here our telescope.

I have a Meade ETX-70 AT. Is a small telescope, but is perfect where I live.




Bye.

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I love M42 and constellation of orion

I've got a Celestron NexStar 4, but I don't get out to use it enough.

I got a camera adapter for it for Christmas, so I'm thinking I'll be taking it out more once it's not so dang cold!

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I've got an Omcon 911T 4.5" Newtonian. I bought it in '88 but haven't used too much in the last few years.

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A Meade ETX-90 original, no Autostar. 90mm Mak
A Meade LX-90 Autostar guided with wedge for pics. 203mm (8 in) SCT
A Meade 400mm (16 in) Dobsonian which I have Bubbed THOR. Typically heavy, onnoxious reflector. It's the size of a water heater standing in an inverted end table. If I can get the machinist to finish up the plates though, I should be able to get it in the trunk of a Neon.

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Astro-Physics 6" f:8 apochromat (one of the early Christen scopes) with a Brandon Vernonscope 80mm f:6.25 apo as a finder/guide scope.

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i have got two scope an 8 skywatcher f5 and a mak 102 mm f13

prob gona get one more soon

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I've got a relic - a 90mm Telsi refractor. My brother found it demolishing a house. Well, it was in the house - not demolishing it. I think it was made in the late 50's or early 60's. It is very heavy duty, built like a rock, weighs a lot for it's size. Except the tripod is a ancient wooden piece of junk, very rickety. Performance is very good.

I had a 10" LX6 with a bunch of aftermarket bells & whistles - but sold it to pay for my 1st skydiving rig.

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I've got an Orion 8" Newtonian on an equatorial mount. I love it, but its use is now limited to our trips to northern Ontario, since the neighbors have added "security lighting" to their garage and yard.

that really sucks ,,, what u can do is turn off the power to ur neighbors hehe

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An 8" Meade LX-10

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Southern Cross 8" Newt. Dob. F/6

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Celestron Nextar 114mm reflector on alt/az comp mount

Chinese 203mm f4 Reflector on EQ4 mount.

Canon EOS300D

Mk1 Eyeball

Danny

Does a 100+ year-old refractor count? The telescope on campus is a 12" refractor with a focal length of 15 feet, and we can still see reasonably bright deep-sky objects with it. (M13 is visible-and absolutely beautiful-while the Ring is too faint, unfortunately.)

Well, I use a Frankenstien model...I'll explain. My son bought a Tasco 500x114 Galaxsee second hand, he replaced the eyepiece and did some other work on the thing (I'll have to ask what else he did). Anyway, now it works fairly well (I would not recommend this brand as it was not very good before he made the changes). It only weighs about 25 lbs so I can haul it around easily. I'm thinking of buying some Orion large aperature binoculars (I currently use my husband's high powered engineering ones). Anyone else use binoculars? What brands do you like?

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I use an old pair of Nikon 7x50's that I got at LL Bean about 20 years ago. That's about all the weight and power that the average person can hand-hold for extended periods. I'd love to have a pair of 100mm binoculars, but then one is committed to a rather heavy tripod and parallelogram-type mount. I think I'll probably invest in a binocular viewer for my refractor and duplicate one of my better Tele Vue oculars.

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Albert Einstein, "On the Ether", 1924

wow can i see a few pics of that?!

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i have a 8x40 binos just for scotting the sky but ill prob get myself some very good ones before the summer is over

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Personally?

An ancient 3" Edmund Scientifics newtonian (used to be my dad's, he gave it to me).

My dad has a 4" Meade Schmidt Cassegrain, an Orion XT8, and a Meade RCX400 10"

My binocular is an Orion 8x50 model. Good for birding and for scanning the summer Milky Way.

My main scope is a Meade 6600 on the old GEM mount and tripod. I have a Jim's Mobile drive for piggy back photography (Canon C-60 SLR) and will try prime focus photography one day (hard to do on the Newtonian).

I have a cobbled up short focus refractor (3"). TERRIBLE chromatic aberration, but quick and easy to use for the kids.

tbm

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If you would like to get a compact monocular for birding, hunting, nature observation, or just sight-seeing, I highly recommend the Orion EagleEye 8x32. It has a very generous eye-relief so eyeglass-wearers can see the field of view.

This monocular can focus as close as 2' or so for very tight views of stuff that you might not want to get any closer to (like a wasp nest) and it is perfect for watching birds at a feeder outside your window - set the focus and grab the 'scope whenever an interesting bird shows up.

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8" Meade LX200 GPS

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