SOLD. Thanks for looking.
Price crazily reduced
Custom built (Meade DS80) 80mm achromatic refractor (F/11) fitted with Antares 2 inch rotatable crayford focuser (comes with 2 to 1.25 inch adapter) and Red Dot Finder Scope. Also comes with 2in diagonal..
The focuser alone cost me $250. The views are really clear with only a tiny amount of false color on the very brightest of objects (moon, planets mag -1 above stars).
Optics are clean in good condition.
It may sound dept. store but the views are quite good - I tweaked that ota (remounted/realigned obj and squared the focuser using laser collimator and self made mylar aper.mask) I got respectable performance out of it - was able to make out e f components of trapesium on a very steady night using averted vision... saw antares B with a filter and split many binaries.. and it goes well around 150x in city (or 200x on very clear nights /dark sky) on planets.. I sanded the adapter tube back as seen in the photos - I know it looks horrifying but it stops the diagonal slipping out with your expensive dslr or ccd optics hopefully (the safety undercut doesn't always do it with this heavy diagonal but it offers up a nice wide field for large chip ccd)...
I have too many scopes and this one needs to go to make room for the next one
.. I will throw in the beautiful custom built wooden case (see photos) for a total of $160 (plus $30 shipping reg. parcel post anywhere within Australia) ...
Thanks,
Chris
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