Jeff Young
Post Laureate
Reged: 08/04/05
Posts: 4491
Loc: Ireland
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Thanks, Rickster and Todd.
And yes, that trio of Lomo's rocks!
-- Jeff.
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Nikon 18x70s / UA Millennium Colorado:
Solarscope SF70 / TV Pronto / AP400QMD Coronado SolarMax40 DS / Bogen 055+3130
APM MC1610 / Tak FC-125 / AP1200GTO Tak Mewlon 250 / AP600EGTO
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Talstarone
Lunar Man
Reged: 09/12/06
Posts: 8153
Loc: Pinetops, NC
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Hey Joey.I see you have a Nintendo GameCube hooked up to your TV in the background of your Cat picture.
You dont happen to play any of the Resident Evil Games for the CameCube do you?I Personally Love them.
I have Resident Evil Zero,the remake of the original Resident Evil,Resident Evil 2(which is my all time favorite),and Resident Evil 3:Nemisis.
I still have to grab RE 4 and Code Veronica.Then I will have to get a Wii to follow through on the Umbrella Chronicles and the New RE5(which is supposed to be the best yet).
But I will have to say you do have a nice looking Cat.Do you use your Cat for mostly DSO or more Lunar and Planetary Work?
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Todd C.
My Eyes,My Heart,My Soul,and The Glory of God's Heaven.
Orion Mini Giant 15x63 Binoculars(Bogen Tripod)
William Optics ZenithStar 66 ED Refractor
Sky Watcher EQ5P GOTO EQMount (SynScan)
Meade Series 5000 Plossls(20/14/9mm)
Celestron X-Cel LX(12mm)
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arowana
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 01/02/06
Posts: 2905
Loc: Pleasant View,Tennessee
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Hey Todd,
We have a Game Cube,a Wii,a Xbox,a Playstation 2 and 3 and a Turbo Grafix 16.
The only thing I play is NFS Underground.
My wife plays Guitar Hero,SIMs and Silent Hill.
I dont think she has ever played resident evil.
I know I have not.
The game systems mostly collect dust around here unless friends come over.
I cant play them...I am always on here. 
The CPC 1100 is my Binoviewing workhorse. Mainly Planets and Lunar when I am home. But a cluster buster when I am at a dark site.
CS's
Joey
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CPC 1100
Earthwin Binoviewer with Dielectric P/F Switch
Matched Pair of 24 Pan's
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Mondo
super member
Reged: 11/30/06
Posts: 101
Loc: Swindon, Wiltshire United King...
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Hi All,
I've got some pix of a Mak you may not have seen much of before, the Intes Micro 815 Deluxe. This was my main scope before getting my current C9.25 (which you can see in my avatar)
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C9.25
Tricked-out AR5
Maxscope40
Takahashi 22x60 bins
DMK 21AF04
EQ6 GEM
http://www.in4media.co.uk/rayandtelescope
Edited by Mondo (05/28/08 02:25 PM)
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Mondo
super member
Reged: 11/30/06
Posts: 101
Loc: Swindon, Wiltshire United King...
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Here's another view
Edited by Mondo (05/28/08 02:27 PM)
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Mondo
super member
Reged: 11/30/06
Posts: 101
Loc: Swindon, Wiltshire United King...
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And here is my old LX200 7" Mak
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C9.25
Tricked-out AR5
Maxscope40
Takahashi 22x60 bins
DMK 21AF04
EQ6 GEM
http://www.in4media.co.uk/rayandtelescope
Edited by Mondo (05/28/08 02:30 PM)
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Tomvictor
professor emeritus
Reged: 08/09/04
Posts: 536
Loc: N.59.11.47. Sweden
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Here is my new 10" ACF on a Takahashi EM-200.
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Tom Victor
http://www.ccd-astrophoto.com/
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Jeff B
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/30/06
Posts: 1588
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Mondo:
Ok, I've just gotta ask...Why did you sell the 815 and get a C9.25? Other than lighter weight, greater apeture, and the ability to pocket a bunch of left over money of course.
Jeff
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skyward_eyes
Vendor-Woodland Hills/Focus
Reged: 12/12/06
Posts: 3352
Loc: California
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I had the same questions about why he sold the TMB 152 he had and now he owns a AR-5?
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Kevin LeGore
kevin@telescopes.net
Woodland Hills Camera & Telescopes
www.telescopes.net
Focus on Astronomy Outreach Project
www.focusonastronomy.org
Director and Founder
k.legore@focusonastronomy.org
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jgraham
Postmaster
Reged: 12/02/04
Posts: 11575
Loc: Dayton, Ohio
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My shiny new ETX-125PE fitted with an Orion binoviewer and a pair of 25mm Explorer II eyepieces. I had an absolutely wonderful night using this telescope last night sitting right next to my LXD75 SC8 which was busy taking pictures.
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-John
The best advice on imaging I've ever been given... don't forget to look! 
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Mondo
super member
Reged: 11/30/06
Posts: 101
Loc: Swindon, Wiltshire United King...
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Well,
In a nutshell the C9.25 is better for planetary webcam imaging.
I won't be unkind and leave it at that though I'll give you the in's and out's. Basically it was damaged when it came into the UK (ding in the tube) and was difficult for my supplier to collimate (the suppliers are clients and friends as well I must add). I then gave it a bash when it fell off the mount due to a badly thought through connection to the saddle plate on EQ6 (Atlas) mount.
The suppliers said it was a back to base job but felt it was a difficult scope to collimate (they were doing it on an optical bench).
Added to this it's cool-down was quite long 1 to 1.5 hours even with the fan.
And as you've already said aperture and tube weight have a bearing plus the C9.25 cost half what I got for the IM815 so I bought a really nice pillar see my review in the reviews section.
I don't feel that the IM815 was any "great shakes" darker sky background than the C9.25 is all I could really say. You see I can keep my C9.25 in tip-top collimation really easily.
IHTH
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C9.25
Tricked-out AR5
Maxscope40
Takahashi 22x60 bins
DMK 21AF04
EQ6 GEM
http://www.in4media.co.uk/rayandtelescope
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Mondo
super member
Reged: 11/30/06
Posts: 101
Loc: Swindon, Wiltshire United King...
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Yes well this is a far more easy question to answer - money. I'd have loved to have kept the TMB152 in some ways (well in most ways) it was the best scope I've ever had. For planetary visual use it would take some beating as would everything about it really, but aperture really counts for webcam imaging and it wouldn't cut the mustard in this field I'm afraid. To be honest I always knew it was kind of on-loan as I was waiting for my IM815 after selling my LX200 7" Mak and actually never paid a penny for it (my friends at the suppliers looking after me).
After using a Herschel wedge with the TMB152 I knew I had to have another refractor to use my HW with and the AR5 (OTA) was only a few 100 £ end of the old LXD range.
Yes it doesn't come anywhere near the TMB but with mono light BAADER Solar continuum filter it does the job (I only use it for the Sun)
IHTH
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C9.25
Tricked-out AR5
Maxscope40
Takahashi 22x60 bins
DMK 21AF04
EQ6 GEM
http://www.in4media.co.uk/rayandtelescope
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rumples riot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 07/01/04
Posts: 2923
Loc: South Australia
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I thought I would post an update here. Last year after owning my C14 for 3 weeks and star testing. I gutted it and installed a Peltier cooling system for rapid cooling purposes. If you have a temperature swing of 13-15 degrees C from Day to night you need rapid cooling, otherwise your scope will never reach ambient. I have done the tests and it take 6 hours to come 0.8 of a degree. For planetary imaging I need to be around 0.1 of a degree C.
If you Click Here you will find a how to on disassembly and installation of my cooling system. This was the first SCT to have this installed and I am pretty sure not the last.
I will also post an image of my latest Jupiter too.
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EARTH AND COSMOS
How to peltier cool a C14 SCT
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rumples riot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 07/01/04
Posts: 2923
Loc: South Australia
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And one the actual scope on the mount
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EARTH AND COSMOS
How to peltier cool a C14 SCT
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Jason B
My wife says I am Obsessed...
Reged: 06/21/04
Posts: 5759
Loc: Mid-Michigan
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Paul,
That is one of the best Jupiter images I have ever seen. My little girls asked me if you took it from a spaceshipe!
Thanks for sharing. Nice looking set up.
Jason
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Jason B
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Julio
sage
Reged: 01/18/07
Posts: 448
Loc: Pembroke Pines ,FL
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Quote:
Hi All,
I've got some pix of a Mak you may not have seen much of before, the Intes Micro 815 Deluxe. This was my main scope before getting my current C9.25 (which you can see in my avatar)
Very nice scope Ray, how does your C 9.25 Compare to the 815 you owned? Better visually?
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Telescopes
Celestron C8XLT Orange Tube SE
Intes-Micro M6511 Mak Cass Deluxe Spec
Orion 100ED Achromat SVP Mount
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Geo557
Astro-Scout
Reged: 10/10/07
Posts: 5523
Loc: SE GA
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WOW! Terrific image of Jupiter. 
Thats one of the best I've seen too. Congrats on that Paul. Great job! 
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Steve W.
http://www.w3streams.com/potd/space
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rumples riot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 07/01/04
Posts: 2923
Loc: South Australia
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Thanks for the kind comments re the image of Jupiter, however the real point I am trying to make is that this is the level of detail that a peltier cooled scope will get on nice nights of seeing (diameter constraints aside). I want to share this information so that everyone can have a go at this. I am not an electronics guru by any stretch, just a bloke that was careful when I did the mod. Please use this idea, you will not regret doing this. Without knowing that your scope is at ambient (you really need to have temperature sensors to know this)no one can possibly determine what the real seeing is. And; in my experience I have seen a lot of experienced people making incorrect judgements as to seeing conditions through a scope that is still exhibiting boundary layer activity. This idea puts an end to that.
Have a great day.
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EARTH AND COSMOS
How to peltier cool a C14 SCT
Edited by rumples riot (05/29/08 11:32 PM)
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Mondo
super member
Reged: 11/30/06
Posts: 101
Loc: Swindon, Wiltshire United King...
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Hi Julio,
I've had the IM815 right next to my friends C9.25 and I think the C9.25 just edged-out the IM815 on detail on Mars although there was less glare and a darker sky in the IM815. Very difficult to tell a lot of difference apart from this I remember at the time I remeber liking the focusing mechanism of the C9.25 better, it was smoother. The images we got that night though were quite a contrast mine were wooly his were crisp.
There's a mystique about the bigger Maks that I feel are unwarrented the big bits of glass take some cooling down, they are heavy and expensive. If I could afford it I'd really like a Takahashi Mewlon 250 or 300.
I was offered a 10" Dall (I mean Dall made by Horace Dall) or a 4"Apo I stupidly went for the Apo but that's another story.
ATB
Mondo
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C9.25
Tricked-out AR5
Maxscope40
Takahashi 22x60 bins
DMK 21AF04
EQ6 GEM
http://www.in4media.co.uk/rayandtelescope
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jrbarnett
Eyepiece Hooligan
Reged: 02/28/06
Posts: 15373
Loc: Petaluma, CA
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Here's my current Catadioptric. An Intes-Micro M715 from Teton Telescopes. All Pyrex rather than the Astro Sital of the "Deluxe" branded Intes-Micros, but specified to be better than 1/8 wave and this particular unit tested at 1/8.5 wave by Teton.
I've never been entirely happy with *any* scope. Well, actually, that's not true. I have been entirely happy with my Takahashi FS-78, but other than the Takahashi, there has always been something that I didn't like or didn't think was up to snuff about every OTA I've owned. That said, the M715 is pretty close to satisfying me. The focuser is a little bit stiff but there's no mirror shift. I made the mistake of correcting collimation by adjusting both primary and secondary. The stock Russian diagonal and finder scope are rubbish. Other than that, I have been delighted. The focuser I "live with," collimation is better handled just like an SCT - secondary only, and the diagonal and finder were replaced with an Astro-Physics Maxbright and an Antares 8x50 respectively.
Features I especially like include: excellent even coatings, intelligent active cooling (rear fan and front filtered, ventilated corrector cell), superb optics and an extremely portable, lightweight package for its aperture and design.
Regards,
Jim
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“I observe vicariously, through myself. When I purchase a new telescope, it's value increases. At star parties, attendees line up to observe me. My observing philosophy: Find out what it is that your telescope doesn't do well, then don't do those things. At historic observatories I am allowed to touch the equipment. My legend precedes me the way the Big Bang precedes everything else.”
- The Most Interesting Astronomer in the Universe
Edited by jrbarnett (06/01/08 01:54 AM)
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