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Nice. This is the old Megrez SD doublet semi apo?
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Possibly, it has absolutely no identification other than Megrez 80mm f6 SD in a white pearl finish with a single 1/4 holed shoe for it's travel tripod, absolutely no identification on the lens I just know it's a semi APO
This cloudy nights thread has the identical telescope:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/8...e-re-purchase/
(not mine unless I got it from this guy for $100, I wouldn't know), I picked it up at central station from a guy who used it as a conversation piece when he had office staff around for work parties, he had no idea what it was or how to use it. He was blown away when I sent him a simple moon image, he absolutely had no idea and it sat in a corner in his apartment.
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Hey Leo, you cant complain about that shot mate, yea a bit shabby on the focus,  but I sure would be happy with that considering the equipment you were use, well done indeed. 
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It was -5 out Leon and my hands were freezing, my scope was covered in ice because I set it up hours earlier expecting the moon sooner (dew strap around dew shield in approximate locale of lens, it didn't frost up) and hadn't bothered looking it up. It was only on my camera tripod and kept wobbling every time I tried to adjust the focus even slightly because I have a non locking rotating base under the gear head. It's supposed to lock but it doesn't, it moves left and right with the slightest touch (I'll remove it now while I remember it's annoying), eventually I decided where it was was how it was, I just couldn't get it better even with the fine focus on the GSO focuser.
I have a small DC moonlite remote focuser I could fit to my focuser but I'd have to figure out a bracket and mounting system, it's from a Newt or SCT and the mount design isn't easy to use with what I have. If I had my milling machine set up I'd machine a mount bracket from billet aluminium but it's still sitting new in it's crate waiting for some lazy old sod (me ) to weld up a frame and fold and weld up a swarf tray. That's a lot of money sitting around not being used with the cross slide table costing over $1,000 alone, add in vice and tooling plus the cost of the new machine and it's a lot of money not being used..
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