Have a Gander at This!!!!

[renormalised (Carl)]

A guy in Utah just built everyone's dream scope

http://m.ksl.com/index/story/sid/27301024

Mind you, I wouldn't be towing it around all over the place, and I'd be using a video camera to observe with. I wouldn't be climbing a ladder to look through the eyepiece!!!.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

That is big!

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Wow, that's awesome! Bugger collimating by your self

[mental4astro (Alexander)]

A mate of mine in Utah sent me a couple of pics of this beastie early this year. The primary wasn't in place as yet - in fact it was sitting in the driveway under a tarp & with a metre if snow on top of the tarp. The "spire" is purely decorative "just because I can".

By all accounts, the scope's owner is very nice bloke,

It is a big sucker, eh!

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Meh, the field of view wouldn't be very wide

[LewisM]

I want to see him transport it in his hatchback

Dream scope - nope, it's not a refractor

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

I want to see him transport it in his hatchback

Dream scope - nope, it's not a refractor

Easily

Yeah, but try making a 70" lens

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

I want to see him transport it in his hatchback

Maybe the truck is his hatchback

[Ric]

That's awesome.

The views must be spectacular.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

I'd be happy with just the finder scope :-)
I suppose it's a grab-and-go if ur in the business of driving Prime Movers tho

[el_draco (Rom)]

I built a 29inch F4.5 and that was gigantic. This baby is a marriage wrecker...

[GrahamL]

Look at the clouds that baby can pull in

[Manav (Yugant)]

collimation could be interesting!

[OICURMT]

I've been watching them for years... didn't think they'd actually finish it. It's been so long in the making that their website was optimizesd for "Netscape"...

http://group70.org/
http://www.group70.org/oldindex.html

[doppler (Rick)]

Here is another big one in Europe http://www.cruxis.com/scope/scope1070.htm and another in the us

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by GrahamL

Look at the clouds that baby can pull in

I'm half expecting the churches in the US will be preaching about another coming flood

[Poita (Peter)]

The mirror was a ready-made surplus item??

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by doppler

Here is another big one in Europe http://www.cruxis.com/scope/scope1070.htm and another in the us

#2 is really unsettling... No way I'd stick my eyeball or even my head anywhere next to that focuser.