Stellarvue 110 ED on its way .

[Dave47tuc]

Well I bit the bullet and sold my C8 ( few said don't) but I moved into my new home and it has limited yard space and sky to view with. I can see a little to the North and West and South, and have to wait for many objects to pass over head.

I'm getting younger in years ! No but as the years go on I promised myself to buy a nice Refractor .
So after a failed attempt here and there , I said bugger it let's look for a new one.
But one has a budget and can not go to big. I also want to use it with my Bino Viewer.

I was using a AP 130 the other night and the BV would not come to focus!! Not enough in travel !
Again not happy. So I had to be careful on what to purchase. I had a budget of 2 k I thought of the skywatcher ED 120 but also read trouble with this May not come to focus with my BV.
I want focus without the OCS and also with it. Not much to ask! :question:

So after getting on cloudy nights forum this thread helped me make a decision.
http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/460371-another-sv110ed-arrival/
I thought this scope sounds very nice not to heavy and will do all I need. Yes it may not give the big views of my C8 but I have a friend who lives 10 mins away who has a 18" which he said I can kindly come around and view with thank you.:)

So then I read this thread, http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/474822-last-of-the-stellarvue-110ed/
And I thought geez only 3 left as of last weekend , but this is really going to cost me double to get it to my door. Shipping plus taxes. Well ask the finance minister? Ok lucky it was Father's Day . Scope ordered, they had one left I think the order went through. Happy.:)

Stellarvue contacted me 2 days later as I asked for the extra extender 55 mm for the BV all no problems. FedEx sent me Email letting me know scope is on it's way with tracking No and also rang asking for payment re taxes. :sadeyes:

But one will get over the cost as I will have that refractor. Yes I may have got the Orion Bintel sell for cheaper or there may have been another alternative, but I liked and wanted a Stellarvue so I went down that road. Scope was in Sydney last night and today is on it's way to Melbourne.:D

ETA to my door Monday. Not half looking forward to seeing it . :thumbsup:

David :)

[AG Hybrid]

Grats on your purchase. I've looked through Mortons 110ed and its really good.
BTW how much was the tax?

[MortonH]

Nice one, David!

[Dave47tuc]

Thanks and Morton :thumbsup: tax $290 :mad2: oh well what can you do :confused2:

[MortonH]

Still a bargain!

[Dave47tuc]

I was trying to find a pic of your scope Morton ?

[MortonH]

Not sure I have one!

[brian nordstrom]

:thumbsup: GREAT ACOPE FOR SURE , Congrat's .
If my iStar was not so good I would grab one of these as well , I was just looking the other day on StellarVue's web page at these , a real bargain .

Looking forward to a report and photos , Oh yes , Welcome to refractor land .

One word of warning , they tend to multiply very easily :lol: .

Brian.

[Larryp]

Having owned a couple of Stellarvues, Dave, I'm sure it will be a great scope, and I think you might be surprised at how close it is to your C8. Contrast is so often underrated!:thumbsup:

[FlashDrive]

Nice choice Dave ..... happy viewing ..... now for the Monsoons to arrive down your way .....:D

Col..

[Profiler]

What was the shipping cost from the US?

[Renato1]

I hope you enjoy it Dave.

You just reminded me of why I hate FedEx - with me they always calculated the tax, and then charged me extra for their "service" in doing it.
Cheers,
Renato

[Dave47tuc]

A lot :D I chose to get the scope express air freight so I did pay for that :rolleyes:

[Stardrifter_WA]

Hi Dave,

You will love the 110. I have the WO version and I use it way more than I use my 8" Nexstar SCT, which is set up in an observatory. I much prefer the 110.

I just love the sharp images I get in the WO110.

Cheers Pete

[Dave47tuc]

Thanks Pete,
I'm looking forward to the scope it arrives tomorrow. I remember some years ago at Snake Valley camp, Chris from NSW had a WO 110 if I remember correctly and I was really impressed by the way it preformed.
Very sharp images and pin point stars and contrast fantastic.
Airy discs at high power around stars fantastic:eyepop:

[Stardrifter_WA]

When I got mine the Moon was up and I put it on the Moon and pushed the power and was stunned by the sharp images. The best images of the Moon I have ever seen through an amateur sized instrument. The only way I would ever sell this scope is if I got a 132 or 150, but there are no plans to do so. Besides, as you go bigger it just gets bulkier. I like the size and weigh of this scope.

Have fun Dave.

Cheers Pete

[Dave47tuc]

:D Happy is one way to put it ! A beautiful Telescope :eyepop:

The focuser :thumbsup: Everything looks so well made , the proof will be under the stars :stargaze:

Unpacking was fun :lol:

Some pics. :D

[Dave47tuc]

Some more pics. Now I need a mount. :rolleyes:

Hope you liked the photo's. Does not do the scope justice it is beautiful in the hand. ;)

[dannat]

crap that ship was quick -just bought an orion 110ED myself [secondhand to avoid the taxes:)]
mine got sent on the 3rd via USPS & has now just arrived today 15th for delivery -FedEx is fast [seems expensive if not a business though]

[Saturn%5]

Sweet looking scope David, Have fun with that :)

Graeme.

[MortonH]

Excellent. The hard case looks nice. I had to buy the case separately when I got mine.

How's your weather looking for tonight?

[Dave47tuc]

Hi Morton yeh the case is very nice :thumbsup: the weather is not a problem as I don't have a mount yet :screwy: looking for one but the purse strings are now tight for a while. Looking for a HEQ 5 hope to pick a good second hand one up here when one becomes available :help:

[dannat]

I want a 1/2 pier for my heq5. Bintel only seem to stock eq6 ones though

[MortonH]

How frustrating!!!

[starfire]

Great looking scope Dave, l can't wait to see it and look through it up at my place soon, Julian.

[brian nordstrom]

:thumbsup: Talk to Claude at AEC , I think he still has some Vixen ones that will fit , they have the same sized hole at 60mm .
Brian/

[Larryp]

Astro-Shop stock the Viven ones too

[Dave47tuc]

Hi all,
So out with the SV 110 for the first time finally under the stars, observing from nice rural dark skies but light glow to the north. Windy night and seeing was not great. Moon to rise around 12.30am local time. I have not had a scope out in the field for many years so I was pretty rusty to say the least, my setting up was ok but my alignment skills where poor and slow so it took me many goes to get my HEQ5 to work but we did get there, I was observing with a friend who has a AP 130.
We are not there to compere scopes as both are different beasts and the AP is a super scope. The 110 is what it is a nice easy set up ED and as you know not a high end APO. I will say a little on the 110. It has false colour easy to see on Rigel say or Sirius and when I looked at the Moon some weeks ago you could see the on the limb of the Moon but it’s not the bad on the Moon. But I brought this scope for its ability for portability and good aperture and BV friendly which it is.
Now onto the viewing with the BV which is a Denk power switch I use the OCS at the bottom the BV to get to use the power switch modes 3 different powers. I use 19 mm Pano’s. Sorry I don’t know the exact magnifications as the focal length of the scope will have changed with the 55mm extender and then the use of the OCS.
I could not quite get all of the Pleiades in the low power field of view but nearly! Orion Nebula was a treat in all three power modes and at moments you can just see the E star pop into view of the Trapezium in the high power mode. If seeing was better this would have been easily achieved.
NGC 253 was a beautiful object best at the medium power range just an island universe floating in space. 47 Tuc to me the best Globular cluster in the sky was outstanding just diamonds in the sky.
The Large and Small Magellanic clouds just a treat to seep around at low power clusters and nebula and the Tranatula Nebula is just beautiful at any power in the BV really is so 3D like it just draws you in you can just look at it and lose yourself there.
But if you think that is good nothing compares to mighty Eta Carina Nebula to me this stands alone as the greatest Nebula in the sky even though it was low in the south east it is just and amazing sight and in the 110 it captures it very well with the BV low power WOW
So have I seen all this before yes! Many times in many scopes and in big Newts but that is not the point. This scope the little 110 SV ED is it any good? Well yes for what it is and BV friendly easy to manage and I will use it way more than any bigger scope and that’s the point.
My Lunt solar wedge will arrive in a week or so and I will report on how that goes.
Happy viewing David.

[starfire]

Hi Dave, it was really great observing again last night after a long break. l really enjoyed looking through your new telescope with the binoveiwers. Orion nebula, carina nebula and other objects looked great, pity the seeing wasn't the best,as well as the wind. Even the poor seeing conditions was affecting the veiws through my Astro-Physics 130mm f/8.35 refractor, as images looked soft. Can't wait till we can look through my 18'' obsession again at all those faint galaxies and planetary nebula's, up there, thanks Julian.