BrianFitz
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Hey All,
I've been hanging out in the CCD forum for a few years now, and it's funny how different the dynamic is here in "Refractors". You guys are a bunch of fun folks as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for the welcome and as asked, here are a few pictures of my newly aquired 152ED and Mount.
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Fitz
Meade LX200R 10" F/10
Meade 152ED APO
Stellarvue Raptor 80ED
WO EP's / Televue diagonals
QHY8 / QHY5 / Philips SPC 900
20X80 Celestron / 7X50 Meade Binos
“Lots of "Dreams”
“The Skillful Illusionist Makes the Best Image"
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BrianFitz
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OK, Number 2
Edited by BrianFitz (11/01/09 08:07 PM)
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BrianFitz
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#3
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Fitz
Meade LX200R 10" F/10
Meade 152ED APO
Stellarvue Raptor 80ED
WO EP's / Televue diagonals
QHY8 / QHY5 / Philips SPC 900
20X80 Celestron / 7X50 Meade Binos
“Lots of "Dreams”
“The Skillful Illusionist Makes the Best Image"
Edited by BrianFitz (11/01/09 08:08 PM)
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BrianFitz
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What's this I found? Could it be a Strehl reading?? I don't know - can someone tell. It was the one little treasure that was with the scope. Looks like 95.5....
Edited by BrianFitz (11/01/09 08:14 PM)
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TomN
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Niiiice!
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Amateur Astronomer since 1962.
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BrianFitz
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My colletion. My wife asked me; "how many telescopes is enough"? Answer; "I won't know until I have enough--I guess". Ugh!
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Fitz
Meade LX200R 10" F/10
Meade 152ED APO
Stellarvue Raptor 80ED
WO EP's / Televue diagonals
QHY8 / QHY5 / Philips SPC 900
20X80 Celestron / 7X50 Meade Binos
“Lots of "Dreams”
“The Skillful Illusionist Makes the Best Image"
Edited by BrianFitz (11/01/09 08:18 PM)
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Newfie Ninja
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Congrats Brian, Beautiful setup, looks good as new. Man that mount is huge, should b a fine match for the scope. Look forward to first light.
Cheers
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CPC 11 Starbright XLT
WO FLT 98 Aluminum Tube
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro Synscan
WO EZ Touch Mount
Ethoi,Uwans,Swans,a Nagler, & a 2x Powermate
A couple of cases of other stuff
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o1d_dude
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Echoing what the Newfie Ninja said, that mount is freaking HYOOOGE!
Hard to tell from the angle of the photo but it looks like the objective lens is about 7' above the garage floor even at that shallow elevation angle.
I think you're going to need a bigger scope buggy, BTW.
Have you first lighted it yet?
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Kit
'Don’t worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky, and enjoy God’s wondrous universe.' - Thomas M Back
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letimotif
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I think you're going to need a bigger scope buggy, BTW.
Bigger garage, too. 
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starrancher
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I only see two so far ! Room for more !
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SteveC
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Hi Brian,
Beautiful set up, good luck with it!.
BTW, you need to send your photo with scope to The Price Is Right! You missed your calling.
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SteveC
TEC 140
Intes Micro 715 deluxe
TEC 110 (on order)
SolarMax 40
Losmandy G-11 w/Gemini, DM-6 w/Sky Commander on SV wood tripod, Vixen Skypod
TEC EP Turret, TMB Supermonos, ZAO II, Naglers, 32mm Konig, 24mm Panoptics, 14mm Meade UWA
Edited by SteveC (11/01/09 09:15 PM)
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stevew
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Brian, it looks great.
Congratulations.
I have the 127ED and it's a great scope.
Let us know how first light goes.
Steve
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TV Genesis SDF
Meade 127ED
Antares 152
Celestron C5
Celestron C8
Celestron C11
Coulter Odyssey 8
16 Dobsonian
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BrianFitz
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Does anyone know what the graph is?
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Fitz
Meade LX200R 10" F/10
Meade 152ED APO
Stellarvue Raptor 80ED
WO EP's / Televue diagonals
QHY8 / QHY5 / Philips SPC 900
20X80 Celestron / 7X50 Meade Binos
“Lots of "Dreams”
“The Skillful Illusionist Makes the Best Image"
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Clive Gibbons
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What's this I found? Could it be a Strehl reading?? I don't know - can someone tell. It was the one little treasure that was with the scope. Looks like 95.5....
Hi Brian.
That looks like a transmission graph for a Hitachi nebula filter.
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A few telescopes of dubious value.
Understanding wife, two curious cats and one sadly departed.
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Jared
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Not certain how you know it's Hitachi... The HI at the top, or have you seen them before? I didn't even know they made astronomical filters. Just curious.
I certainly agree that it's a graph showing the blocking/transmission properties of a nebula filter--looks like it passes red, blue, violet, and teal but blocks green, orange, and yellow. That will leave SII, H-alpha, OIII, and H-beta all undisturbed while rejecting low pressure sodium (in particular). Looks like it's roughly the equivalent of a Lumicon Deep Sky filter as opposed to UHC filters) since it isn't blocking reds.
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- TMB 152 f/8 Apochromat
- Fluorostar FLT-110 w/ TEC optics
- Stellarvue SV80S
- Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
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LLEEGE
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Looks great, Brian!
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Steve Fisher
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Brian:
She looks like a beauty. Congratulations. I'm glad to hear that you have found that us refractor guys aren't all that bad.
Looking forward to first light reports.
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Steve
8" f/12 D&G Achromat Refractor Delivered 08/27/09
6" D&G f/12 Achromat Refractor
66mm f/6.1 William Optics Petzval
6" f/8 Celestron Starhopper
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David Pavlich
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Nice hardware, Brian! That thing does take up a lot of space.
David
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m9x18
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Wow Brian! That's one beautiful refractor! You did real good on that one!
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Robert
All that is complex is not useful and all that is useful is simple. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Clive Gibbons
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Not certain how you know it's Hitachi... The HI at the top, or have you seen them before? I didn't even know they made astronomical filters. Just curious.
Hi Jared.
I've seen Hitachi astro filters in the past and am aware of their logo.
Link.
Looks to match up.
P.s. to Brian Fitz;
does the lens cell have radial adjustment screws? 
(if you could take a picture of the side of the cell and post it, that would indicate one way or the other.)
It's a great looking scope, whatever the case. 
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A few telescopes of dubious value.
Understanding wife, two curious cats and one sadly departed.
"Semper ubi sub ubi"
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