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29-07-2019, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Melbourne
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What scope..if you could
Is there a scope that you have always wanted to own .. or look through .. but cost and availability had precluded you. I can think of a few but currently, for what ever strange reason, I am fixed on a Takahashi MT-200. I have owned and looked through their refractors and Mewlon but their reflectors now have my attention. Yeah, I know no doubt someone will chime in with 'what difference would it be compared to the Mewlon' probably none. A while back I wanted a Epsilon E-200/210 or the ultra rare E-250.
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29-07-2019, 01:31 PM
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Deprived of starlight
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sydney
Posts: 3,771
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Hubble
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29-07-2019, 01:33 PM
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Ultimate Noob
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 6,982
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ASA 1000WF
I’d then need a FLI Kepler-6060 and an obscene amount of filters.
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29-07-2019, 01:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Dunners Nu Zulland
Posts: 1,662
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My own, more often. Perfectly happy with what I've got, but too little time to enjoy its full potential.
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29-07-2019, 02:05 PM
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amateur
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Mt Waverley, VIC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by N1
My own, more often. Perfectly happy with what I've got, but too little time to enjoy its full potential.
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Same here...
Enough time for this hobby is essential, even without any equipment.
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29-07-2019, 02:12 PM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: sydney, australia
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Just came up for sale, a 20" APM Mak! 
https://astromart.com/classifieds/as...0-f85-for-sale
Need a mount and permanent installation, a bucket full of pencils & reams of paper...
Alex.
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29-07-2019, 02:34 PM
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Not even a speck of dust
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Canberra
Posts: 1,474
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My own if I could get stroke treatment to get half my body working again so I can use my gear ;p
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29-07-2019, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Melbourne
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mental4astro
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Two things in the ad took my interested ..the FCT-150 and the APQ-150.
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29-07-2019, 02:40 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 2,140
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The Pic du Midi 1 metre Cassegrain would be interesting to look through.
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29-07-2019, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 2,140
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yep, I'd be happy with the APQ 150/1200 as a guide scope.
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29-07-2019, 02:49 PM
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Strictly Visual......
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Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: Canberra
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Tec 200 ed
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29-07-2019, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: North Queensland
Posts: 3,240
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Can I have two please? One 10" quality RC with matched camera and trouble free focuser/mount etc for astro imaging and also a nice 6" frac on a manual alt-az for visual appreciation of the skies, because I could set up such frac myself fairly quickly.
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29-07-2019, 03:55 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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Newton's Newt - the original one.
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29-07-2019, 04:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Killara, Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Tucker
Is there a scope that you have always wanted to own .. or look through .. but cost and availability had precluded you.
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Hell yes - the APM 20” f/8.5 maksutov currently on Astromart... optics by Santel. Need to win Lotto first, though.
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29-07-2019, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Melbourne
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LewisM
Newton's Newt - the original one.
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The replica Vixen offered quite a few years ago just wont cut it?
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29-07-2019, 04:59 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Tucker
The replica Vixen offered quite a few years ago just wont cut it?
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No 
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29-07-2019, 06:02 PM
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Senior Citizen
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bribie Island
Posts: 5,059
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I want Wavy's Santel MK91
Col....
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29-07-2019, 06:49 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Dunners Nu Zulland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlashDrive
I want Wavy's Santel MK91
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Good luck with that. It's probably being mounted as we speak
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29-07-2019, 07:10 PM
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Senior Citizen
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bribie Island
Posts: 5,059
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Quote:
Originally Posted by N1
Good luck with that. It's probably being mounted as we speak |
Yeah ....Probably 
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