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I have a Meade 102 ED triplet the rear surface of the objective needs a clean. Although the focuser assembly unscrews easily this does not give...
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Once again thanks for all the helpful comments. I know of no one who can collimate triplets in the USA, I'd be hard pushed to find anyone who can in...
I picked up this very common no name made in China scope recently second...
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Thank you Barnacle for a most awesome review and tutorial. I learned about flocking, torch light testing and I followed through by working on my own...
I made a mistake last night and looked on a local buy and sell for telescopes... :lol:
For a grab and go; I'm currently using my Towatron...
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Thanks for the input everyone, much appreciated! You all make good points as well. As for it being low for comfortable observing that's a good point....
This morning I was doing some cleaning in the astro shed and I started thinking about the 115 - 150 mm gap I have in my refractors.
Of course when a...
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The Bresser Messier AR-127L / 1200 arrived on 14.Aug.
I did a delivery inspection and all looks well. :)
star test it passes with flying colors (Actually the color is pretty good. No star halos chromatic aberration is negligible on point sources and not...
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Yeah but I wasn't tracking at the time. Just recorded video with crop mode recording then screenshotted the sharpest looking frame out of a minute or...
Since the Celestron C6-R has been modified considerably, (the only 'original' part is the tube and even that has been modified)
I will have to think...
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Things are progressing slowly, the order of flocking has arrived though I still need material for the shade.
Hey everyone, I see this Meade refractor telescope this guy is selling on Facebook marketplace.
The guy is asking $100 said he literally used it once...
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These short focal length, smaller than 80 mm beginner refractors are good to let the children play with at night or take it along when hiking/...
I hope everyone can view the observatory telescope linked below. It's a very old refractor, probably with specs similar to a 7 Mak. But it also looks...
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I would bet they use the Telrad for getting their bearings, then observing with the finder.
#1 , Long Perng 60mm f7 triplet , this is a very sharp small telescope . I use up to 150x with ease with...
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Nice set of refractors you have got!
Although I have owned and observed through dozens of reflectors in all sizes, I always came back to refractors....
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