What's your favourite setup?

[gregbradley]

Mine is the AP Honders and Proline 16803.
About to be restarted.

But one scope does not do all and this one is best suited to widefield scenes.

Greg.

[Slawomir]

Setting the bar high Greg? :thumbsup:

Well, my favourite setup is the only one I have :lol:

[brian nordstrom]

;) This .

APO , Japanese mount and TV eyepieces . 100% visual :thumbsup: .

Brian.

[gregbradley]

And a lovely one it is too.



Sweet. I'll be joining with a similar setup soon.

Greg.

[rrussell1962]

I am very fond of my Nexstar 8SE. But every time I get the Obsession 18" out and let it cool down I think "I must do this more"

[Ukastronomer]

Before this turns into a mine is a better one than yours, I assume Favorite does NOT mean who has the most expensive to show off !!!

Mine is simply my ed72 skywatcher on Gitzo tripod, used for terrestrial and Moon, stays in the car, quick and easy

Therefore "favorite" and not most expensive :)


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[Ukastronomer]

Hope this doesn't turn into a mine is better than yours, there is no "Bar" it is favorite setup so no BAR

[glend]

Visually, my iStar 127mm, R30, f12 on my observatory CGX.
Imaging, my TS 115mm Triplet APO on the CGX.

[Rainmaker]

Maybe this one ( it's like trying to pick your favourite child...)

[gregbradley]

Sweet!

You'll have to report back about its performance.

Greg.

[FlashDrive]

That's real NICE Matt :)

[Startrek]

My 8” f5 Bintel GSO newt on an EQ6-R Mount
A low cost rig and a great all rounder for imaging under my Bortle 3 / 4 skies south coast NSW

[JeniSkunk]

I'm very much in the same boat.
I only own one telescope, so what I own is my favourite.

[LewisM]

I’ll third what Suavi said. More than enough, covers everything I want to do.

[Slawomir]

My comment was intended as a complement, not as an invitation to a teenager-style competition :hi:

[Atmos]

It's been a long road but I'm thinking my RH200 could become my favourite once I remove this last 40 microns of tilt! At least for dark skies, in Melbourne longer focal length imaging may be better. Oh the difficult decisions!

Most of my favourite shots have been from a 5" F/5 refractor though so that muddies the waters a bit... Sigh...

[Ukastronomer]

I know :)

[xelasnave]

I like my 80mm..I can lift it.
alex

[doppler]

I guess my favorite the one I use the most. This setup has everything that is not recommended for astrophotograpy but it works well anyway. My daughter wanted to join in with some imaging of the recent Saturn occultation so I put a 4" refractor on top for her, must be 20kgs on top and the old HEQ5 didn't flinch.
Rick

[Rainmaker]

Nice, though a bit surprising that the HEQ5 held it steady :thumbsup:

[doppler]

The heq5 handles the weight easily the only thing that stuffs things up is a bit of wind, but fortunately up here if its clear its usually calm as well.

I think that the mount guides a bit better with a bit of weight on top, and the pier does make things a lot more stable as well.

[bigjoe]

The CPC 925 When cooled or insulated is hard to best in great seeing ..but normally everyday my 130mm TS Triplet (FPL53 GLASS) gives Razor sharp views besting the C925 but with less resolution and only good on deepsky at 130mm...Powered by Televue and Takahashi EPs.
MOUNT pics soon.

Bigjoe.

[Wavytone]

Well, in suburban Sydney the main targets are lunar & planetary and I have to keep it portable, so it’s a big mak(MK91) on an altaz tracking mount (AZEQ6) for me. It’s the next best thing to a similar aperture refractor which I couldn’t possibly lift, let alone afford or house.

[MortonH]

C8 on DSV-3.

[DJ N]

Just love my yard cannon.... breathtaking views.... Esprit 150ED mounted to a Discmounts DM6

Cheers

Daniel

[Merlin66]

The C11/ NEQ6/ Spectra-L200 set-up for spectroscopy is the "work machine" and the SM60 DS on the ED80/ HEQ5 is for the solar majic!

[UniPol]

Tak FS-60 OTA/ Tak Space Boy mount/Tak FC-M tripod is so light and easy to set up. The FS-60 has four different tubes converting it into an FS-60C, FS-60CB, FS-60CSV and FS-60Q. This enables it to be used over a wide range of modes from landscape, wide field and planetary viewing plus focal ratios from F5.9 (f4.2 with reducer) to f10 (with 1.7x extender). Needless to say the optics are very sharp and contrasty, a great little scope.The Space Boy mount is a 1991 model and has the normal sidereal rate plus moon and solar rates. It can be used in Alt/Az mode and fitted with various cameras.

[ariefm71]

My long lost Intes MK67 on a Vixen GPD mount