[Ian Robinson]

They are true family treasures and heirlooms. Must be heartbreaking parting with them . I hope your kids and grandkids truely appreciate how unique and valuable these scopes are , because if you don't find a buyer in the astro fraternity and you die , it would be a crying shame for them to windup sold for bugger all to some crook of a pornbroker just to get a quick liquidation of the estate.

Bequeth to the local club maybe ? Least then your pride and joys will go to a good home and continue being enjoyed by people who will appreciate their quality.

This happened to some very high quality porcinlin figurines from my wife's aunti's estate (worth a small fortune that she had collected over 70 years) when my stupid pisspot father-in-law inherited a few of them in his share of the estate .... sold them for $10 each (probably went straught to the nearest pornbroker as soon as he was given them) !!!! My wife is very upset as she loved the aunti and loved the figurines and knew how valuable they actually were and hoped he would hang onto them in her memory or pass them onto his daughters or granddaughters ..... The man is a bloody moron.

Beyond my means at present , I'd be chasing the 6" APO if I had the readys .... sounds like a wonderful telescope .

Would love to see more pictures of it - closeups of the business end and the glass .

Do you have any photos taken through it ?

I once had the pleasure of looking through a monster 8" Adcock Flourite (?? in the 70s) and I was ..... WOWED !!!! much better stars than I could see through the 8" Meade newtonian on the nextdoor mount to it . He was truely one of the greats in aussie astronomy .... not a name I have heard for a very time.