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[deSitter]

Don't laugh, but I'd really like to replace my old Harmonic Reed telescope collection.

I would have a hard time resisting a nice vintage chemistry set with all the chemicals and apparatus. I miss owing apparatus

 

-drl

[Jay_Reynolds_Freeman]

I begin to hanker after a Meade 178ED refractor. If I had one I could always start a discussion by telling people how good the optics were and how easy it was to collimate.

<ducks and runs away fast>

Clear sky to you all ...

[CHASLX200]

I begin to hanker after a Meade 178ED refractor. If I had one I could always start a discussion by telling people how good the optics were and how easy it was to collimate.

<ducks and runs away fast>

Clear sky to you all ...

I want one as well as another fork mounted C14 .  I want a 2nd chance lance.  I would never want to tangle with mounting a C14 with a D plate.  I am Newt rich and fract poor so three Newts are going and gonna try some more APO's- ED's.  I just gotta pick one Newt out of three freaky good 1's. The CN8 is very good as well but not like the other three.

Edited by CHASLX200, 09 February 2025 - 06:23 AM.

[98105dude]

How about a 1954-55 Questar De Luxe with 2 original Pepsi badges - and maybe owned by Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant?

[CHASLX200]

How about a 1954-55 Questar De Luxe with 2 original Pepsi badges - and maybe owned by Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant?

Not for me.

[98105dude]

Good - good! More cake for me 

[Kefka1138]

Zeiss Reflektor MAK 180/1800 Meniscas. I want one badly. 

[tim53]

I don't wanna buy any more classics.  I sometimes find that I need to, though. 

 

I'm hoping to be mobile long enough from now to build a few more.  Starting with the 6" Gregorian I need to finish the secondary for, and maybe put the OTA on a new Springfield mount.  Then, finish the secondary for the prototype C-14 I was working on a year or so ago.  Then, there's that Schaefer 8" f/8 Newt I figured a mirror for.  It just needs a cell and a counterweight to get it back on the road.  Then, I have that 16" United Lens mirror blank to make into a mirror.  I'm thinking of making it around f/5 so it's not too coma-y, and putting a Barlow and camera at the primary focus and use it as a camera, not a visual scope.  And finally, there's that 16" Mak Cass optics set to finish, after I accumulate enough experience to feel confident enough to tackle the meniscus - provided I'm still above ground and mobile.  At least, now that I'm self-unemployed (aka, retired), I *should* have more time.  But the trouble with retirement is you never get a day off.

 

-Tim.

Edited by tim53, 21 February 2025 - 12:24 PM.

[deSitter]

How about a 1954-55 Questar De Luxe with 2 original Pepsi badges - and maybe owned by Alfred Hitchcock or Cary Grant?

What, do tell, is a Pepsi badge?

 

-drl

[Kasmos]

I don't wanna buy any more classics.  I sometimes find that I need to, though. 

 

I'm hoping to be mobile long enough from now to build a few more.  Starting with the 6" Gregorian I need to finish the secondary for, and maybe put the OTA on a new Springfield mount.  Then, finish the secondary for the prototype C-14 I was working on a year or so ago.  Then, there's that Schaefer 8" f/8 Newt I figured a mirror for.  It just needs a cell and a counterweight to get it back on the road.  Then, I have that 16" United Lens mirror blank to make into a mirror.  I'm thinking of making it around f/5 so it's not too coma-y, and putting a Barlow and camera at the primary focus and use it as a camera, not a visual scope.  And finally, there's that 16" Mak Cass optics set to finish, after I accumulate enough experience to feel confident enough to tackle the meniscus - provided I'm still above ground and mobile.  At least, now that I'm self-unemployed (aka, retired), I *should* have more time.  But the trouble with retirement is you never get a day off.

 

-Tim.

I use to get more done on my time off (weekends), than I do now that I'm retired. 

[strdst]

I use to get more done on my time off (weekends), than I do now that I'm retired. 

Amen brother