ik507racer
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Is there any review or comment about it ?
Clear Skies.
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Pasquale
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I don't believe it's been shipped yet, ik507...
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JAFE
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Yeah itīs not in stock yet.....and I want to hear about this triplet Apo too. By the price range on the 4" category it looks a bargain.
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tboss70
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I don't know about that...apparently this guy has one...pictures look nice too.
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2166919/page/2/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1
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Strgazr27
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Is there any review or comment about it ?
Clear Skies.
I have been testing the 111 when the weather allows which this winter has not been as often as usual or I'd like. Buzzer is helping me out and occasionally uses the scope. He's doing some nice stuff with it and the scope is pretty impressive. No visible CA when in focus, excellent contrast and a very flat field. Almost no curvature is visible using a 40D sized chip. andy has a few more pictures I'll have him throw up on here.
I can also tell you it's good enough that I don't think Mike at Astronomics will be getting this back as either Andy or I will be purchasing the scope if Mike and Royce do not need it back.
CS's
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Buzzer
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Hello,
I have been using the 111, every chance I get, this winter has been a real stinker though. If we get 1 clear night a week we are happy. That being said, the first images with the 111 were taken when it was on top of my Meade 12" LX 200 fork mount. Balancing and guiding were a real chore to get right and I am not sure I ever did get it right. Bobby, has been trying to convince me about a CGE, and I finally listened. I only have the CGE for about 2 weeks. I am now extremly happy with his advice, and this made the scope shine even brighter. Guiding and balancing are now no trouble at all. The scope is made very well, the 2 speed focuser is real smooth, it also seems to carry the Canon 40D with no problem. I only image, so looking through it has not been a quest. The stars are pinpoint all the way to the edge. Another thing I must add is that even on different nights, I have not moved the focuser, it holds the focus from night to night. I have never noticed any CA. I am attaching a picture, I took with this scope. It is a picture of M-51, Taken with a Canon 40D, 74 subs, each one 4 minutes long, iso 800. Stacked it in Deep Sky Stacker, processed it in Photoshop. I have to use a IDAS light pollution filter all the time, my clear dark sky clock has me right in the middle of white. The picture was cropped ever so slightly due to slight field rotation. It even picked up a number of faint fuzzies. One more thing, I will not give this back even if they need it, LOL. Andy
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KWB
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One beautiful image,Buzzer. 
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jonnyastro
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I'll be honest. I was less than impressed with the review Tom T gave the 80 millimeter version. I i were on the market for this, i think i"d take the aperture hit and go with the soon to be TMB 90.
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Astronomics
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The 111 and 80mm scopes are to different animals and two differnet designs. Tom Back designed the 111mm.
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frodriguez
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where is the 90 mm AT90EDT???????????????
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where is the 90 mm AT90EDT???????????????
Don't ask. Whenever this question is asked no sound is to be heard from anyone 
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Astronomics
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Still not here. We have 100 empty tubes if that would satsify you.
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frodriguez
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this is tantamount to torture. just like a horse being shown a carrot so it would advance forward to reach for it and pull on the chariot. 
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Francisco
TMB 100mm f/8 triplet apo
Universal Astronomics UniStar Deluxe w/ 7" saddle
Sokkia green heavy wood tripod
Televue 7mm Nagler T6
Televue 5mm Nagler T6
Televue 24mm Panoptic
Televue 2x barlow
Televue 2" Everbrite diagonal
Televue 2"-to-1.25" high-hat adapter for 2" diagonal
Stellarvue F50W2 9x50 RACI white deluxe finder
Astrozap Baader white-light solar filter
Baader 2" UHC-S filter
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JAFE
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When do you gonna have the AT111 in stock? 
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Jorge
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Astronomics
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10 days tops. They have cleared customs and are on the road to us now.
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amirab
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And the TMB80SS ?
Amir
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LLEEGE
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Still not here. We have 100 empty tubes if that would satsify you.
So Astronomics assembles the final product?
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jonnyastro
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The 111 and 80mm scopes are to different animals and two differnet designs. Tom Back designed the 111mm.
Who designed the 80?
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Buzzer
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Here is another image with the Astro-Tech 111. This is when I had the Meade LX 200 12", I had the 111 piggybacked on it, with a Losmandy plate, DA blocks and fixed rings. It was extremely hard to balance, due to the fork mount, and I sometimes had to use an extra long 1/2" threaded rod on my balancing rig, along with extra weights. This image was 48- 75 second subs, iso 800, Canon modified XTI, unguided. This image was also rotated and cropped due to the way it was situated in the scope. With this set up it would have took to long to rotate the camera and refocus, Andy
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TMB 92ss
Mini Borg 50 Guidescope
Celestron CGE Mount
QHY8
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
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Buzzer
professor emeritus
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Posts: 659
Loc: Long Island, NY
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This will be the last one, unless the weather does a 360. It has been cloudy for a long time now. Here is a picture of Comet 17P Holmes (I am sure we all have one). Once again same set up with Meade 12". I used about a 16" long, 1/2" rod and 4 weights just to balance it all, this object was in the Northeast so the set up was pulling extremly hard. Taken on 11-11-07. It is 55-2 minute subs, ISO 800, Canon modified XTI, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, this was auto guided through the 12". This picture was also in Astronomy Magazines Reader Gallery for February,(lucky me). Andy
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Meade SN-10 Carbon Fiber
TMB 92ss
Mini Borg 50 Guidescope
Celestron CGE Mount
QHY8
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
http://buzzer.zenfolio.com/
"I THINK THE WEATHERMAN NEEDS MORE EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT"
WANING CRESCENT OBSERVATORY
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