asaint
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/25/03
Posts: 2021
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Perhaps the ultimate planetary telescope. You decide.
ATM: Planetary Monorail
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Emanuele
Good Boy wants Cake
Reged: 11/19/03
Posts: 3988
Loc: Miami, Florida
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Ok....now I want one.
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Mike B
Starstruck
Reged: 04/06/05
Posts: 4455
Loc: shake, rattle, & roll, CA
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Wow! How sweet  Looks like the future to me  And that shot of Saturn is simply stunning! Way to go!
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Jarad
Post Laureate
Reged: 04/28/03
Posts: 3858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
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What's the aperture? I saw the secondary was 1.83", but I missed the primary diameter somwhow...
Looks really nice!
Jarad
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Emanuele
Good Boy wants Cake
Reged: 11/19/03
Posts: 3988
Loc: Miami, Florida
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....so...can someone replicate it: I'll pay cash 
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Mike B
Starstruck
Reged: 04/06/05
Posts: 4455
Loc: shake, rattle, & roll, CA
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It's burried down in the middle of the article... 13-3/4", so he's calling it a 14". 
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Jarad
Post Laureate
Reged: 04/28/03
Posts: 3858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
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Ah, missed that somehow....
Wow, small secondary, then!
Jarad
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Starman1
Vendor - Scope City
Reged: 06/24/03
Posts: 10955
Loc: Los Angeles
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Wow!
What can be accomplished when experience, access to tools, and high-end materials are mixed.
Impressive. Most impressive.
I would be interested to know the optical background of the author.
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Don Pensack
12.5" Truss Dob, 5" Maksutov
Sustaining Lifetime IDA member, TeleVue junkie
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erik
telescope surgeon
Reged: 01/30/04
Posts: 24019
Loc: Hawaii 19 N lat -155 Long.
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that scope looks incredible... beautiful work, and an interesting article! 
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-Erik Wilcox
Homebuilt 16" Truss Dob
SV 80mm ED Nighthawk NG on M1 ALT/AZ
Nikon Prostaff 65mm spotter on Trekpod
Konusvue 20x80 binos/Peterson pipemount
Orion 10x50 binos
Homebuilt 80mm f/5 refractor
Mirador 60mm f/12 1960's refractor
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Mr. Bill
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 02/09/05
Posts: 2759
Loc: Just passing through.....
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Well, I was going to enter my humble folded refractor in the ATM contest, but after seeing this, why bother?
Genuinely impressive!
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10x50 Fujinon FMT-SX binos
15x70 AP binos + Paragon p-mount
Oberwerk 100BT 45 degree + Hercules fork mount
120mm f/5 Orion achromat + Moonlite focuser
140mm f/5.7 Vixen NeoAchro Petzvel refractor
150mm f/6.5 Antares achromat
150mm f/8 homemade achromat....EE Barnard MW Sweeper
8 inch newt with f/5 Swayze mirror
10 inch f/4.7 Orion newt + Paracorr
15 inch f/5 Discovery split tube
35mm Pan, 26mm Nagler, 17mm Nagler, 13mm Ethos, 8mm Ethos
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McFortner
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/05
Posts: 746
Loc: Stockbridge, GA, USA, Earth, S...
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Tell me about it. My poor Tasco rebuild looks like it doesn't have a snowball's chance in a supernova right now....
I sure wish I was that handy with powertools!
Michael
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Time's fun when you're having flies. - K. T. Frog
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Dave Chadsey
professor emeritus
Reged: 07/27/04
Posts: 503
Loc: Southern California
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Wow! 
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...and deliver us from ego.
66mm Stellarvue ED
4" achro
8" Nexstar
10" Orion Dob
16" Meade Dob (split tube)
Many binos
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Anonymous
Unregistered
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I'll add a "holy cow" to this thread.
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nemo
sage
Reged: 06/09/03
Posts: 388
Loc: Eugene,Oregon
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Mr. Forde must be a man of many talents. I am genuinely impressed with his efforts and results. Actually having looked over the article several times I am absolutely flabbergasted!! True genius at work here.
Incredible job,
Dan
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"Humility is not thinking less of your self-it is about thinking of yourself less."
Edited by nemo (06/21/05 06:22 PM)
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Anonymous
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That is an awe-inspiring scope...
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Sherk
Beer connoisseur
Reged: 02/09/04
Posts: 5259
Loc: Belgium
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A mind is like a parachute, it's only when they are open that they work.
 
"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated and share a good beer with us."
Celestron Nexstar 102 GT(Caramba)
Celestron Nexstar 4 GT (Marvin)
Coronado 10x25 Binomite
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Jeff Morgan
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/28/03
Posts: 1531
Loc: Prescott, AZ
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A beauty! To the editors, you can just send him that 31 Nagler now ...
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Jeff Morgan
Prescott, AZ
Wile E. Coyote School of Telescope Making
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JerryL
member
Reged: 07/02/03
Posts: 42
Loc: St. Louis, MO
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It's not so much the scope I want, but the tools!!!!
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Anonymous
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I had to join this forum just so I could comment on this scope. I saw it at St. Croix State park in Minnesota. He was helping at a public star party there. When I first saw it I thought oh yeah like that thing is going to work. My first view was of the double double in Lyra. Even though he said it was only 70 power each double was cleanly split with dark inbetween. I asked him to raise up the power. What resulted was something I had never seen in a telescope before. The stars got further apart but they didn't get any bigger. I think they actually may have gotten smaller. I counted at least eight star diameters between the componets. Just black featureless space. When I got home I looked up the seperation and his star diameters had to have been less than a third of an arc second. The bugs got pretty firece so I had to get the kids inside. That ended my observing. I have never seen this telescope again until now. I tell people about how weird looking this scope was and they think I am nuts. I am finally vindicated! Chad and Kyle you guys owe me a beer.
Bobby John the now proven sane
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Anonymous
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That looks more like a web camera image instead of a DSLR shot of Saturn, in terms of detail.
If you've ever tried to image Saturn with the Rebel you know what I mean.
Not trying to be a doubting Thomas, just am curious how he did it (and without tracking too??).
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