Thanks Hans, and best wishes for you and your family too! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!! & CLEAR SKIES TOO! Ivan ... planet. ... last ... of ... nights. ... ...
New Years eve I observed Gamma-And for the 1st time and split it easily at 80x with the 80f5. The documentation says the pair are 9.8 arc sec apart, and form a...
My Celestron ST80 splits Castor, separation 2.1 or so arc seconds, and the double-double in Lyra, I think 2.3 or so arc second for to tighter of the two...
... seconds, ... to ... enough, ... gets me ... Wow! You must have very good eyes and very good seeing. For an ST80 to split doubles that close is really...
Hi Tom, I think it all can fall into place even without superhuman sight: Unlike for larger scopes, with a little scope like the ST80 seeing has to be quite...
Hi, I have a ST80 and bought a camera adapter to couple my Canon A40 to my scope. I just got my t-thread adapter in today, which was the last part I needed,...
Someone on the digitalastro group suggested I insert my barlow into the line, which worked great. Now if only this last little bit of cloud cover would clear...
... the line, which worked great. Now if only this last little bit of cloud cover would clear out so I could give it a try.. ... Greetings fellow Digital...
Leo, maybe I really am .... and/or maybe Arizona seeing is better too, although it hasn't been that spectacular lately. I looked at your list, I don't know if...
... spacing ... comment ... found ... light, ... Interesting. Now I'm curious to test my own ST80. Most of the time I concentrate on variable stars, but I'll...
... Right he is. Those of us who have been imaging awhile end up with a collection of adaptors. The Orion ST-80 is an odd animal, it won't focus with most EPs...
I have clearly spit the double double with my G185, 7mm Siebert and cheap Celestron barlow, (and my 60+ yrs old uncorrected eyes). It can't be that hard....
... Borg have a very extensive list of components. They have a number of T-thread extension tubes which will screw onto the T-thread on the back of the 1.25"...
Like Godzilla, I'm back..! ;-) (and I still love the ST80 along with my Stellarvue 80) My college son wants an ST90. --he doesn't want to pay a whole lot for...
Hi Mary, ... Fellow Godzillian here.... ... screw ... has ... I bought my ST90 in October 2001 and it came with the "aggravating" thumb-wheel mounting plate. ...
Hi, has anyone here tried "twin-ing" a pair of these and using either erecting prisms (the old style) or pairs of star diagonals to make a "binocular"...
... I had thoughts of doing this once. The sticking points are getting the inter-scope collimation perfect and bringing the eyepieces together to suit the...
Thank you Phil for the comments and pointer. After some mental gymnastics I think there's another issue with the attempted use of two pairs of star diagonals:...
Yahoo insists on rearranging ASCII Art... Ignore the ...s ...........______ ......../--______ L scope ........O O ______ ...........\--______ R scope ...
All. "Having plucked up the courage to make the mod and practised pin lifts on a broke IBM 386X from 1989. (It didn't work but almost a shame to take it ...
Hi, I'm contemplating a project/experiment to see if two of these scopes with straight-through erecting prisms could make an acceptable low-to-mid-power...
you may or may not find some help/ideas/advice here: http://www.astromeccanica.it/eng.html or http://www.astromeccanica.it/eng.htm (select binoscopes.....) ...
This I think is a very good deal: skywatcher 80mmf5 Table top EQ mount 2x barlow two eyepieces carry case Total for $160 US dollar see the web site. ...
... Hi: Well, yeah. I don't know how practical the table top tripod is, but, yes, this is a very good deal. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of:_Choosing and Using a...
Hi all, I picked up one of those Apogee 80F5's they were closing out x-mas of '01. My son stripped the thread in the mounting block. I removed the mounting...
I have a fundamental problem understanding advantages of binoscopes (except possibly for financial reasons on little non-APO scopes like the 80), so why not...
I just joined this group as I recently obtained one of those great Orion 80f5 refractors. I ordered a new mirror star diagonal and barlow from the Stellarvue...
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