Santa came early!

[gavin]

I did have to wait 8 years though.

[gavin]

I'll add some photos once it's mounted on the AP-1200.

[Allan]

Very nice Gavin. Are you going to use it for imaging or visual?

8 years sure is a long time to wait, so long I guess you just forget about it. I see that's about when you signed up for IIS.

[leon]

Ah, this Santa is a nice fella, very nice indeed Gavin.

Leon

[MortonH]

Make sure there are no reindeer hairs between the lens elements. You know how sloppily some of these cheap scopes are put together.

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

That's a real nice Scope .... you must have been a good boy to receive that...

Poppy...

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

very very nice

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

What a beauty

Are you sure they didn't mislabel it though? It doesn't look very big

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

I am so jealous...I think Santa is bringing me a lump of coal! Congratulations, look forward to hearing your impressions.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

It is a beautiful telescope, congrats Gavin.

[gavin]

Thanks everyone for your comments. It actually came early! I was expecting a 10 year wait. It's amazing, and a little scary, how quickly the time goes by.

The intention is to get into imaging. I'm hoping to have more time soon. It's obviously overkill for an imaging beginner but at least I won't be able to blame the tools.

[RickS (Rick)]

Congrats, Gavin! Mine is bigger though

[DJT (David)]

Congrats! Awesome scope. i got on the list a couple of years ago assuming 10 yrs and am down to 7 years 33 weeks....

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Have you opened up the Cloud compartment yet ? It has a proximity fuse delay, as soon as it gets put on the mount all the clouds pop out...

Nice scope though. Nice.

[gavin]

Originally Posted by RickS

Congrats, Gavin! Mine is bigger though

I'm told size doesn't matter although Peter Read would probably disagree.

[gavin]

Originally Posted by DJT

Congrats! Awesome scope. i got on the list a couple of years ago assuming 10 yrs and am down to 7 years 33 weeks....

Thanks. Yes, I feel very lucky. Hopefully Roland won't retire for a few years yet.

[LewisM]

Santa brought me a 1990 production Takahashi FC-76 today - and EXTREMELLY pleased I am too. All 25 years worth of cosmetic issues rectified in 2 minutes of receiving it!!! (not a scratch - only some rub marks that polished out with a cloth and paste rouge)

It's not the doublet that thinks its a triplet - its the doublet that KNOWS its a triplet