Where to start ,,
198?? something my girlfriend got me a Trust66 60mm alt/az refractor from those shopping booklets that always end up in your mail box , it was crap with the 4-12.5 and 20mm .965inch hygenes .. terrible , but usable .
That started me off .
Being a poor aprentice I had to make my own scopes ,
#1 , 10 inch f/10 newt ,EQ , aswome but HUGE !!
#2 , 5 inch f13, newt , EQ , planet killer !
#3 , 5 inch f/3.5 newt , ( made out of the tool from grinding the f13 ) .
#4 , 6 inch f8 newt , Dob mount
#5 , 8inch f/6 newt , Dob mount
#6 , 60mm f/15 1971 Meade refractor EQ 1 , the 20mm was my best eyepiece , and I still have this scope .
#7 , 100mm f10 Celestron Frac on EQ3 , my first taste of quality 1 1/4 inch eyepieces , 25mm , 18 mm and 10 mm Plossles .
#8 , 150mm Saxon f/8 Frac ( with Chromocor ) on HEQ5 , more good Plossles .
#9 , ED80 OTA , first taste of short quality scopes .
#10 , 150mm f/5 SW frac , more Plossles , great deep sky .
#11 , 63mm Zeiss Telementor , super quality Zeiss 16 and 25 mm Orthos , the best !! .
#12 , 80mm Stelarvue semi apo f/5.9?
#13 , Tak FS60C , nice
#14 , Tak SKY90 , nice
#15 , Tak Mewlon 210mm . Awsome !!
#16 , Home made Istar/Saxon 127mm f/8 refractor on TV Gibralter .
Eyepieces ,
Full set of CircleT Orthos 4mm -25mm for my Zeiss .
A few nice Vixen LV's .
11off TV's , 3x Radians , 3x Panoptics and 5x Naglers , all got here at IIS over the years , takes time , but you save a fortune .
Some Meade 1.1/4 and 2 inch eyepieces and my HUGE 31mm Celestron Axiom LV .
My 5 inch f13 and 150mm Saxon frac are in NZ being used by friends and family , the rest are sold , given away to newbys and apart from my Signiture here I still have ,
I probably missed a few , like Bino's and the such , but its been a great journey , thanks IIS .
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Brian.