Bring your Wallet ... if you want one...!!

[FlashDrive]

Came across this today....

356mm APO Triplet.....14" Lens Diameter .... 5 meter long refractor built by JTW Astro. :eyepop:
Approx 330,000 US $ for just the lens and cell.......:eyepop:

Comes in under 200kgs.

All photos here credit to JTW Astronomy.

see the build here.....

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=ms.c.eJw9j9sNxEAIAzs6AebZf2PhI ORrNfJgloQYIOxJIsa~%3BbFZVgXpExTDAt vnHvuznUzMz5M0piGFW9bLo~_JrLUjEcdrm Mn3rz1PuzcPNUy3T7a~%3B39j3Zd95GVnz9 9TtfHe5~%3BvfVDDP~_~%3BnAcOhM3k~-.bps.a.832532930135613.1073741893.1 74295462626033&type=1

and here....

https://www.facebook.com/pages/JTW-Astronomy/174295462626033

Flash.....:)

[rrussell1962]

I have just put in a quick question about downsizing to a tent. Short reply. I guess I won't be getting one after all.

[FlashDrive]

:lol: ... I gather she said ... NO

Col....:D

[rrussell1962]

Not quite Col, the reply had 2 words.

[PCH]

Lol - so funny ;)

[Kunama]

Does it come in any other colours?

[LewisM]

I am sure they could make you a puce one Matt :P

[Andy01]

6 figures for the lens alone...

[FlashDrive]

Finland White or Finland White or Finland White....:rofl:

Flash....:D

[g__day]

Would love to see the optical tests and first light! Wonder what they will mount this sucker on? Not often you see an APO that a EM-3500 or an AP 3600 couldn't hope to handle!

[Eratosthenes]

The cost of refractors and telescopes in general don't increase linearly with aperture. Certainly some sort of power law or exponential trend. Custom made One offs, which this looks like to be, can fetch any amount the "payers" see fit.

I Wouldn't be surprised if this monster tips in at over 1 million dollars, plus software and transport costs.

I wonder if the optics are diffraction limited and does it come with a second lens.

[ZeroID]

I better go buy a bigger mount ......

[OzStarGazer]

LOL
I must remember to write to Santa Claus about it later this year. :)