Spicaeyes Telescopes

John K · #1 27-09-2006, 01:12 AM

Has anyone seen these telescopes before?

All metal construction dobsonians on aluminium equatorial platforms.

The 20" f/4.5 sells for $US12,000. Interesting concept.

Defenitely worth putting on the good old "dream" list.

http://www.equatorialplatforms.com/spicaeyes.html

John.

iceman (Mike) · #2 27-09-2006, 06:06 AM

Looks great, very pricey! Does look like a nice bit of gear.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #3 27-09-2006, 10:35 AM

Looks very tempting. I wonder what it's periodic error is and how easy it is to polar align. 300D would look nice sitting at the top of one of those

ving (David) · #4 27-09-2006, 11:01 AM

buy me one

they look very purdy!

Satchmo · #5 27-09-2006, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Looks very tempting. I wonder what it's periodic error is and how easy it is to polar align. 300D would look nice sitting at the top of one of those

The drive system is by Sidereal Technology and has the option to chain two units together to also drive field de-rotation motor for altaz photograghy and focus motor. If you can buy your own gearboxes the setup is only about $650 USD with two servo motors

It will do GOTO as well in conjunction with a laptop or Argo Navis.

http://www.siderealtechnology.com/

Mark

John K · #6 28-09-2006, 12:53 PM

I thought that periodic error is determined by the size of the gears and that horsehoe mount design because of it's circumfrance size (which the equatorial platform is a cut down version of) did not exhibit any periodic errors at all.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #7 28-09-2006, 01:19 PM

Don't know John, that's why I'm interested.

mickoking · #8 28-09-2006, 01:34 PM

They look like very fine 'scopes