Hello All, It's been a difficult season with poor seeing all around. finally able to image Saturn using my TMB 8" F/9 @ F/45 with good seeing. Atik color...
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Hey John, I am curious as to how your picture will turn out....I am new to this group and am Very much interested in TMB scopes as I will be in the market very...
... Hi Jim, Sorry about the bad seeing, yes it's been a rough season worldwide it seems. From your image it looks like spring is shaping up nicely. Here the...
Yes, the 60mm spacing is an AP standard. One can get around it with Losmandy D series so long as they are the DAP's. Mark ... all ... look ... comes ... ...
Hello John. Where are you in Tx? I'm thinking of getting an SS, as a few are still around with the original focuser. How is the focuser on yours? I've heard...
... Nothing wrong. The link is here: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tmboptical/files/Jim%20Phillips/Feb27-07SaturnJHP8\ -58x.jpg> Jim posts a detail message...
Thanks everyone for your kind words. Much appreciated. I use a 5X Barlow/Powermate on my TMB 8" F/9 to get to a focal length of F/45. I use an Atik color...
What a great picture......almost looks like it is from Hubble..... Regards, Jay ... No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile....
Hi gang (Salut les fanas d'oculaires TMB!) Scopemania has now in stock the full line of Burgess / TMB Optical Planetary Series eyepieces (la série planétaire...
It's not a new idea. It's been around 20+ years. It is probably useless for precision optics. We used to do something similar at the Gould optics lab back in...
I learned this today from Astro-Physics: If you go to this page: http://www.losmandy.com/secondary.html There is a DAP4 for $90.00. The two little adapter...
Buenas Tardes Manuel I'll answer to the whole group as that information can be useful to all. I confirm that Scopemania will run until March 15 the "buy...
Well, I had been waiting for a while for my new scope, and today I could pick it up at Markus' place: a brand sparkling new TMB 152mm f8 with the 3 inch FT...
Hi Dodi, Congratulations on your new TMB scope! I also have a 6" TMB f8 system with the TMB Flattener. I am having some issues with the spacing on the...
Hi Mike, I got the information from this group. Someone posted examples made with AP flattener and STL11K. If you do a search you may find the details. After I...
I'd just contact Thomas or Markus to get the proper back metal distance figure for the flattener before investing in a new one. A correcting adaptor to get to...
Hi Mike I just got the FF from Markus for my 7" TMB and Proline 16803 camera and the distance from the last glass surface on the FF to the chip was designed to...
... Hi Dodi, Congratulations on the new scope. I sure look forward to your expertise in astrophotography in this size aperature. I am curious which AP FF you...
... That is correct, 113mm from the center of the lens. It is 97.428mm from the outer edge of lens. ... It's so simple to add these threads but they can be so...
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