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[YourNotSirius]

Please write down or take photos of serial numbers it makes it so much easier identify stolen property. If you have something stolen REPORT IT. I can’t stress this enough get it in the system. There is a national law enforcement database get it in the system. Also if you have any doubts a about something you have purchased second hand have the serial number run by the police. In Michigan we can do it right from
the car I suspect most states can as well and certainly any department can have their dispatch run it through state and federal databases.

The serial number is available in the ad in the link I provided. However, just to make certain that it is show, here is an image of it.

 

 

 

If ANYONE sees ANYTHING then please, contact your local authorities or me via PM. It really stinks to have such a nice and moderately uncommon collectable stolen. My worst fear is that it was all tossed into an industrial dumpster somewhere.

 

Thanks,

 

Q

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[Chucky]

https://www.limaohio...lescope-stolen/

 

I'm actually in Lima now.  Really sad this happened. 

Edited by Chucky, 28 August 2022 - 01:16 PM.

[skyward_eyes]

Please keep an eye out in the Phoenix area. My trailer was broken into while prepairing for the SOL event taking place this weekend. 

 

My 28” is ok but a ton of other stuff was stolen.

 

Please keep an eye out on Phoenix Craigslist and such. Most of my TeleVues have glow tape around the top so their easy to ID.

Lunt 60 with b1200 DS60
Scope serial: 0001240

FotoPro Eagle E-9 tripod

Glatter collimator 2/1.25”
Blug 2”
Cross hair
Grid
Circle grid

 

Tool bag

Eyepiece case:
55 Plossl
41 Panoptic
31 Nagler
27 Panoptic
24 Panoptic
21 Ethos
17.3 Delos
17 Ethos
13 Ethos
13 Delite
10 Ethos
8 Delos
8 Ethos
6 Ethos
4 Delite
2” Astronomik OIII
2” Astronomik UHC
2” Lumicon H-Beta
2” Baader Skyglow
2” Baader neodymium

EQ6-Ri mount

[Chucky]

Really sorry for your loss.

[takmais]

Glad to see this is here. Unfortunately, i'm here to report that literally ALL of my astronomy equipment was stolen from my vehicle in the parking garage of my apartment in Austin texas. I've still not yet documented everything but below are the big, painful parts

 

- Astro Physics 130GT OTA in gray case (i have serial number)

- William Optics GT71 in padded black case

- iOptron HEM27 mount with tripod

- Brown, Wooden Burlebach tripod

- 2 black plastic cased filled with eyepieces

-- -- 35mm Televue Nagler and several others i cant remember and will update soon

- ZWO ASIAir Plus

- ZWO 533 MC camera

- ZWO 120 guide camera

 

I'll update this once ive actually documented all of my losses.

thank you

 

-john

[KTAZ]

Glad to see this is here. Unfortunately, i'm here to report that literally ALL of my astronomy equipment was stolen from my vehicle in the parking garage of my apartment in Austin texas. I've still not yet documented everything but below are the big, painful parts

 

- Astro Physics 130GT OTA in gray case (i have serial number)

- William Optics GT71 in padded black case

- iOptron HEM27 mount with tripod

- Brown, Wooden Burlebach tripod

- 2 black plastic cased filled with eyepieces

-- -- 35mm Televue Nagler and several others i cant remember and will update soon

- ZWO ASIAir Plus

- ZWO 533 MC camera

- ZWO 120 guide camera

 

I'll update this once ive actually documented all of my losses.

thank you

 

-john

It is probable that someone at the apartment watched you move your gear in and out of that car multiple times and then waited to strike.

 

When you replace your gear, you should bait them again with nice new, empty, boxes in your car and run a hidden cam to catch them in progress.

[Martin A Cohen]

THEFT OF TELESCOPES AND EYEPIECES, December 2022
 
Last month, someone broke into my storage and stole several of my most cherished telescopes. The Santa Monica Police Department is working with me to resolve the case and hopefully find the perpetrator(s). The most valuable scope is a William Optics 123mm F/6 LZOS triplet in a carrying case, also containing a TS APO flattener. Also came with a diagonal and a Stellarvue 60mm finder. The serial number of the lens is 030. If anybody encounters this telescope, please let me know. Only a very limited amount were sold. I will gladly send photographs if you think you may have a lead.
Then there is a William Optics 110mm F/7 triplet, no serial number on that one. Several smaller refractors were stolen as well (a Meade LX-70 R5 - 120mm F/8.3) with upgraded dual-speed Crayford focuser in a light blue Meade soft carrying case, also holding a 9x50 Apertura finder scope, a CED-1 2" diagonal and a Meade 8.8 mm eyepiece; a Sharpstar 76 triplet with reducer in an aluminum carrying case that also contained a Stellarvue 4mm 82 degree eyepiece; a small Radian 61 Raptor in the black backpack; an aluminum case with 14 eyepieces, among them a 30mm 82 degree Explore Scientific and an ES 20mm 100 degree; and finally two ZWO cameras, the ASI071 MC and a ASI224MC, in a black Apache case with cables and adapters.
 
Here is a link to my Astromart announcement, which has photographs:

 

https://astromart.co...tolen-equipment

Any information that leads to the arrest of the thieves will be rewarded. Thanks so much!

[rjacks]

A C14 and mount showed up in the classifieds today at a suspiciously low price of $3500.  Makes me wonder.

[carolinaskies]

A C14 and mount showed up in the classifieds today at a suspiciously low price of $3500.  Makes me wonder.

LOLZ... it's an older 14"... it's a reasonable deal 

[Jon Isaacs]

LOLZ... it's an older 14"... it's a reasonable deal 

 

Currently the price is $2700. The seller is a long time CN member (18 years) and a well known amateur astronomer.

 

Jon

[ElevatedAstronomyTours]

in north Denver Colorado, I had two telescopes and a welder stolen out of my van.

 

1) Lunt LS60THa Solar Telescope Pressure Tuned with B600 Blocking Filter serial # 1835

 

2) Celestron Advanced VX 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope and tripod with star sense auto align (currently working with Celestron to find serial # from order # will update with their reply)

 

3) Titanium Easy-Flux 125 Amp Welder

 

any info please reach out to me directly at 303.324.5831 or Luke@AstroTours.org

 

Thank you for looking out!

[jlinsobe]

Maybe our profile signature is attracting undesirable eyes.  I just removed mine.

Hoping that everybody recovers their stolen property.  

[BlueTrane2028]

Maybe our profile signature is attracting undesirable eyes.  I just removed mine.

Hoping that everybody recovers their stolen property.  

Very little of what's in my line is at my house or in my vehicle.

I also don't expect petty thieves to follow an enthusiast's website, most thieves steal targets of opportunity...

[WWPierre]

I am feeling what is probably grief. I picked this up a couple of weeks ago, mostly for the tripod. I had the scope set up on my covered deck, in the gate....fiddling with it and tuning up the mechanisms......playing, you know. Well, yesterday morning it was gone. I had set it up for astronomy and bird watching. A right angle finder, a "real view" diagonal, and a nice 10mm-30mm zoom I picked up on the net. I haven't told anyone else........should have shut the gate.

 

In the last few years hundreds of new condos have been built in my neighborhood. This is the kind of telescope that would look good in the corner of someone's living room. I suspect one of my new neighbors.

Edited by WWPierre, 20 February 2023 - 11:19 AM.

[FutureMan]

Within the last month, I had 2 items stolen from my stargazing events, while providing free outreach star parties in Arizona and New Mexico.

Really bummeb because the eyepieces were donated to our organization just 7 months ago. The thing is, that I am very detailed with my equipment, keep lists and tabs on everything, because each item is essential and used to it's fullest potential. Everything is kept inside my truck, or trailer, which are closed all night near my table. I am speaking to people at my scope but I am never the one staring through the scope, im the presenter. If they wanted to take somthing, they'd have to resort to opening the truck, which would illuminate the inside. Or, they would have to open the trailer to get inside, which isnt hard at all, just a bar latch, but its a hurdle to get past unoticed. Lastly my eyepiece case sometimes is on my table when i am using filters for visual. This is how they took the eyepieces, because when I was packing up, I noticed it missing, but was speaking to somone. It racked my brain because it was there at the start when I pulled out the celestron 40mm to align, which is next to it. Anyways, I am frustrated and confused, but someone knew the values and targeted the green text. If you see these, please let me know. Thanks.

 

Televue Nagler 9mm 1.25in - Something not easy to miss or leave behind., now gone - My only quality high(er) power EP.

Televue Panoptic 41 2in - My best eyepiece Ive ever had and 1st  and only Televue I ever bought. I do have a Baader Hyperion 36mm, but its nowhere near as nice. 

 

I hope they are using it half as much as I was. I am so sorry to the donor. I'll be better and try to avoid this happening again at all costs.