That moment when 2 SDM's meet!

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #1 11-05-2018, 11:05 PM

Ah, how beautiful

I happen to be the lucky fellow that is looking after Jack Giles's 16" f4.5 SDM Astrograph for a while before he puts it up for sale. It's a beauty and the first SDM built for astrophotography from the ground up. Still a stunning instrument for visual too and with recently re-aluminised primary is in absolutely as new condition.

Gonna say, I'll miss this when it's gone - put my full frame DSLR on it a couple of times and taken single second exposures and have been amazed by the results. Ah, Size Does Mater

billdan (Bill) · #2 12-05-2018, 05:32 PM

Very nice Jonathan, I notice in the first photo, the 2 scopes are doing the Japanese handshake (bowing to each other).

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #3 13-05-2018, 12:16 AM

They are certainly very respectful of each other Bill!

It's interesting that at some point in SDM history they started being built with the focuser on 'tother side - not sure why.

OneCosmos (Chris) · #4 18-05-2018, 06:03 AM

Fortunately they can remain best of friends as I don’t have the heart to let the smaller brother be dispersed to the winds.