Centurion 28inch

[PeterM]

Just received this from my good friend Jim Riffle (Astroworks USA) an imagers dream I guess. I can say having seen the quality of Jims workmanship and operating then 18inch Centurion when Jim and his wife lived here some years ago, that they are absolutely superb instruments.
Err... no I don't have $70,000(US) so the 12inch LX200 stays put.

PeterM.
http://www.astroworks.com/c28/info.html

[TrevorW]

A bit to big for the backyard drats

[beefking (Nathan)]

haha, that's huge.

I stumbled across the Orion "Monster Dobs" today - 32" to 50"; they're like godzilla... or something.

m m m m monster dobs

[Wavytone]

Ummm... a wee understatement: "Don't point a Monster Dob at the sun" They should have added "... or Sirius".

Spontaneous self-combustion follows.

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by PeterM

Just received this from my good friend Jim Riffle (Astroworks USA) an imagers dream I guess. I can say having seen the quality of Jims workmanship and operating then 18inch Centurion when Jim and his wife lived here some years ago, that they are absolutely superb instruments.
Err... no I don't have $70,000(US) so the 12inch LX200 stays put.

PeterM.
http://www.astroworks.com/c28/info.html

Very nice. I owned a 29 inch F4.5 Newt many moons ago. For plain, simple "blow your brains" out light grasp, awsome. I pointed it at Sirius once... took me ages get rid of the burn in on my retina... Jupiter was like a Voyager shot... so much detail in the cloud belts... and I spent a whole night looking at a tiny fragment of the LMC... man I miss that scope... but it was a cow to move around.