If you are interested in TOA binoviewing, take a look at www.binoscope.com, and visit TATSURO MATSUMOTO´S SITE. Nice telescopes there. I have posted 2 photos....
I had seen on the Texas Nautical site that there is or will be reducers/flatteners available for the TOA-130 that will be compatible with the FS-102,128 and...
Hello, I just joined this group and have looked in several area of the Yahoo site looking at the files and messages posted. I have a permanent setup in my...
New Takahashis come with these spacers, apparently the Japanese don't like to use diagonals. They have a way of not showing up with used scopes, but they are a...
Thanks. That odd because mine is only several months old and no spacer. It only came with a 1 1/4" adapter and I bought the 2" adapter as well. Steve ... From:...
I just picked up a 'new old stock' FCT-76, gray, helical focusser with 6x40 illum finder and wondering whether to get a vari-extender or the extender-q for it....
One quick note - the Temma supports varying tracking rates in both RA and DEC. Good for lunar and comet tracking. It's only the software support that is...
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Yes, it ic called solor/lunar. Art Ciampi ... From: <ksbtk@...> To: <UncensoredTakGroup@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 2:23 PM Subject:...
Due to lack of demand the EM-2S has been discountinued. Art Ciampi ... From: "Jean/Mike Sutherland" <jsuth@...> To: <UncensoredTakGroup@yahoogroups.com>...
The Takaashi Mewlon is a An f/11+ visual CCD telescopes, while the Epsilon is a very fast hyperbolic, corrected astrtograph that are as fast as f/3 and the...
This telescope was designed to be used as a wide field indstrtument and astrograph. should yo want Vari-Extender information, I wil gladly fax it to you. Art...
Yes, I beleive we have one left. Art Ciampi ... From: "Jean/Mike Sutherland" <jsuth@...> To: <UncensoredTakGroup@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 02,...
Hello All I returned from the Orange County Astronomers Star Party Saturday night in Anza (Southern California). It was the first time I have had the Mewlon...
A couple of weeks ago someone asked about my observation that more recent comparisons between my M250 and 6" APOs shows poorer performance than what I observed...
Gene Horr
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Art I would like to point out also that the Epsilons are fantastic CCD platforms: http://flyboy999.freeyellow.com/Nebula/CCD/FinalM8HaFinal.htm ...
I have to agree 100%. I had my M250 out this weekend for the first time and was blown away by the views. This is one great scope. I put my new ST-7XME and...
I have decided to sell my FS152. I had hoped to keep it, but I am using my 7" Starfire and Mewlon 250 more. I have been notified by AP that I will be in the...
I was feeling photon limited since I haven't been out since TSP so I took my Mewlon 300 to a star party this weekend also. I even took the EM-500 rather than...
Hi guys this is my first post to this group. I just (today) got a Tak FS102 and want to mount a Nikon F3 on the back end, for shooting eclipses etc. What will...
What is the version of TheSky that has the latest (and working) Bisque Temma driver. Last I knew it was xxx.100 and I noted some anomalies in it especially...
Art - I'm getting conflicting reports on this. I have this email from you that says 67.7mm, but you said 72.8mm on the phone today while I was talking with...
It's a surprise which you will find out in October. You are correct there will be other larger and smaller sizes. The fun is just beginning. Art Ciampi ... ...