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14-06-2009, 04:58 PM
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One to make you drool
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14-06-2009, 05:12 PM
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DROOL DROOL. I'm still wiping it up.
What a fantastic setup. Very clever. Its pretty cool how the down pipes just go back together when the roof is closed again. And the pneumatic catwalk. Cool. (funny how cool rhymes with drool).
Thanks for the link Trevor.
Kerrie
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14-06-2009, 05:17 PM
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It cost him $250000 US to build
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14-06-2009, 05:26 PM
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All that for a meade SCT and a 6" tak on an Alt-az mount? haha...
Looks awesome, but seriously... I reckon spend $200000 USD on gear and 50k max on housing it.. a 4m home dome would have done nicely..
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14-06-2009, 05:39 PM
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Hes an odd bod, if it did cost him $250000 to build, it was what, 10 times more than the scope?, at least. The 16" Meade is great (well, for visual anyway), but makes you wonder if hes into observatorys more than astronomy. A PME and perhaps an RCOS wouldve been a (relatively) small additional cost, and a lot better astronomy. Ahh, horses for courses, who has the right to say otherwise, he ?.
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14-06-2009, 05:40 PM
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oops, exactly Alex.
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14-06-2009, 05:54 PM
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I just point it at stuff
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What's with the introduction by Colonel Sanders?  Given up on the chickens and decided to dabble in astronomy?
That's pretty cool.
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14-06-2009, 06:21 PM
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Good on him.
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14-06-2009, 06:33 PM
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 Think I'll stick with what I've got.....but could be tempted to go to a *real* 16" RC if there was a buyer in Oz for my 14.25
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14-06-2009, 06:37 PM
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I'll take it if you'll sell it for $14.25  even $1425.00... any more and you'd really be stretching my budget!
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14-06-2009, 07:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Ward
...but could be tempted to go to a *real* 16" RC
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as opposed to what Peter?
I have to agree, massive engineering but all that for a alt az setup. Such a shame. The structure is sublime.
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14-06-2009, 07:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexN
All that for a meade SCT and a 6" tak on an Alt-az mount? haha...
Looks awesome, but seriously... I reckon spend $200000 USD on gear and 50k max on housing it.. a 4m home dome would have done nicely.. 
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16" Ritchey- Chretien LX200 not SCT
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14-06-2009, 07:19 PM
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The Meade 16" LX200R or ACF is what he means by "Ritchey-Chretien", not quite what you might think, or what the legal system in the US decided was an appropriate description.
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14-06-2009, 07:21 PM
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Meade dont make Ritchey Chretien telescopes. they are a modified SCT. Yes they out perform the average SCT, but they are an SCT nonetheless.. This is however, a discussion for a different thread.....
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14-06-2009, 08:16 PM
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Have to agree, Meade does not nor has ever made RC telescopes. A Ritchie Chretien has two hybolic surfaces, not just one. It is a 16" ACF only but still sitting an an alt azimuth mount.
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14-06-2009, 08:22 PM
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Anyway, the Meade mount is more to the point, marginal at best.
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14-06-2009, 08:33 PM
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True Fred, even the 16" meade would be would do the trick given a nice mount.. MI750 equatorial forks, AP1200, PME... No matter which way you look at it.. If you've got quarter of a million U.S. dollars to spend, shell out 15k USD for a paramount and be done with it... honestly...
As you said earlier... it is his observatory, and who are we to tell him what he needs...
If it were my $250000 USD.. You'd be looking at a tin shed with a pulley operated roll off roof.. 2x AP1200GTO's, one holding a 14.25" RCOS + STL-11000, the other holding a Tak epsilon with STL-11000... fully loaded with all the gadgets one would need to be running 2 full imaging systems at the same time..
Oh life would be grand!
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14-06-2009, 08:33 PM
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Let there be night...
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You would expect an EM-3500 or similar sitting in there, wouldn't you.
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14-06-2009, 08:43 PM
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Have scope will travel!
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I hope he got council approval before he built it or they may make him pull it down.
Frank
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14-06-2009, 08:52 PM
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An insane 24" RCOS and AP3600 mount would fit into Alexes budget plan.
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