Hi Donald: Maybe I wasn’t all that clear in that message…I have 2 refractors: one a 100mm acromat refractor from Sky Watcher (to tell the truth I had…...
Another way to look at it, Peter, is that for one sum of money you can get an Orion refractor and for a higher sum you can get a TMB refractor that has more...
LW Tube http://www.apm-telescopes.de/images/products/apm/TMB_115F7_lw.jpg CNC-LW II http://www.apm-telescopes.de/images/products/apm/tmb_Klein.jpg Markus ... ...
Scott my add is for the very last available classical silver CNC Tube, such offer we dont make for our new line tubes , but for this equisit product Markus ......
It's probably even less important for most imaging due to the long time averaging that takes place. The atmosphere then becomes limiting. Peter ... ...
Hi Marcus, Thanks for the pictures. I notice that the new tube seems to have the finder scope mounted near the focuser vs. the tube itself. Are there any...
SM: What a concept; you get what you pay for! Although Galaxy optics has done this for years with parabolic mirrors, I haven't seen any other Telescope...
... Don, did you read this one? One of the strange posts of the author (Amalia) found inside that thread, about how to get the eyepiece designs from Al ... Oh,...
WG: Donald, Did Questar *DROP* their prices when they redesigned the Q to lower surface accuracy for the R2 configuration? That only seems natural since they...
Hi yesterday I found that at the date I want to open my observatory to Public, I will be not at home, since that weekend is HOT's at Coronado and I must be...
the LW use a 2" focuser with sliding drawtube the CNC use a 3.5" focuser, so it can be used with the fieldflattner and later coming reducer if you mean with...
OK, don't forget to drop me a reminder mail ;). D. ... to Public, I will be not at home, since that weekend is HOT's at Coronado and I must be there :-)...
Hi Clark, That's not so exceptional. I have used a few times over 1000x with my C9.25 on double stars with good seeing. The emphasis is of course on good...
... <justin_t_morgan@h...> wrote: Hi Justin, ... It looks like early September. ... I can give it to you, but it won't do you much good, unless you want to do...
. Why ... Hi Tom, The reason, for me at the time, was simple. A straight through 10" F/9 apo would not fit in my observatory nor would my AP 1200 mount hold...
I have done some testing with the TMB ED 1.8x barlow and the TV 2.5x Powermate. For solar viewing, I have noticed that my TMB ED 1.8x barlow is not nearly as...
Yes finally got to it. Some interesting discussion on barlows and Powermates. And not all multicoatings are equal: the transmission graphs provided by Pentax...
A guy could grow old waiting for the fog to clear around here! I had been working on new data for the Helix, and got as far as the H- alpha -- then the fog...
Mike, Congratulations for your making APOD today with your excellent narrowband image of M8. Well Done, Terry [Non-text portions of this message have been...
As always, comments/suggestions on the image are welcome. Hi Mike And as always I only have the best to say about you're images, you're helix is amazing,...
Spectacular result Michael... Not at all foggy ;) Perhaps the only glitch I see is the sharpening halos around stars in the nebula, but that can be cured of...
Yes Mike congratulations, it is a beautiful image. ... From: tmboptical@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tmboptical@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Terry L Tuggle Sent:...
Jim we have in germany a company doing such Pier tech stuff, they have one holding that weight. balansing a large tube can be made the simple way with magentic...
Hi Dodi, Over 1000 x ... it would be very nice to see that. I actually just meant that David was lucky to have seeing supporting 540x in the first few nights...
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