New Carbon Fibre Newt

[Startrek]

After waiting 4 months for my 8” Klaus Helmerich Carbon fibre tube to arrive from Germany , I finally finished building my new rig for Sydney to replace the trusty old 6” which has served me well for the last 6 years.
I wanted a slightly faster scope at f5 , longer focal length at 1020mm , more aperture and only a marginal increase of 3kg in payload from the old 6” metal tube newt.
A big thank you to Paul and Diego at Sidereal Trading
Includes my existing re used GSO mirrors and GSO dual speed focuser with ZWO EAF from my old 8” metal tube newt
Also I’m upgrading to Mono in about 4 to 5 months so the Antlia 3nm Narrowband filters will be a game changer under Sydney’s Bortle 8 muck

Photos attached

You can blame me if it’s cloudy for the next few weeks, I can handle it

Cheers
Martin

[Tinderboxsky]

Looks impressive and purposeful.

Great to see your stand alone stainless steel band solution to secure the EAF to your focuser has stood the test of time!

[EpickCrom]

Ahh, so now I know why it's so cloudy over here in Perth all of a sudden!

What a beautiful scope, I'm sure you will have many memorable sessions with it. Enjoy :)

[Dave882]

Nice one Martin! Just in time to shoot some galaxies I reckon!

[croweater]

That's a mean looking machine Martin. Expecting some great images from you, especially when you get your new filters.
Cheers, Richard

[oska]

Gorgeous Martin, congratz.

[Startrek]

Thanks all for your kind comments
I have some work to do, she didn’t reach focus tonight , out by about 12mm
Reason , TS Optics Coma Corrector moves your focal plane by 20mm and this OTA didn’t have any spare length past the focuser , it had spare length between spider and focuser which doesn’t help at all with focus
My 10” Carbon Fibre down south was lucky I guess , I had 4 to 5mm spare travel
Bugger !!
Cheers
Martin

[xelasnave]

That looks great Martin...thanks for your thread.
Alex

[Crater101]

Looks like a really nice rig, looking forward to see what it can do. Well done young man.


...and now I understand why snow is predicted nearby in the next day or two. :rolleyes:

[Startrek]

Thanks Alex
Can’t wait to use it once I sort out the focus

Cheers
Martin

[Startrek]

Thanks Warren,
If 63 is young I’ll take it
Sorry about the snow , maybe going skiing ?

Cheers
Martin

[xyren]

Looks great. Love the carbon fibre look. Thanks for sharing.

[Startrek]

Thanks Jimmy

[The_bluester]

My 10"F4 has one of those tubes, the next upgrade when I have some spare cash (Ha) will be on ethe the CNC milled spider and secondary holders they make now. Mine has the big Astro Systems spider and holder (With a larger secondary mirror) and while it works, it is finnicky to set up.