Magnificent telescope, Alex. 22" is a truly wonderful aperture! And I like the way you got one of your spectacular Milky Way views into the photo of your scope.
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Originally Posted by Ric
Congrats on a beautiful looking scope Alex
The pictures are fantastic against the night sky backdrop.
Cheers
Ric, Patrick - thanks!
South-Eastern skies are quite reasonable on the Mornington Peninsula so the Milky Way came out nicely on the photos.
That semi-compact design must save a quite bit of weight.
I thought Peter had stopped using Kydex for UTAs though??
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It's very manageable, the mirror box is about 25kg and rocker box with servocat and the drives - another 20kg. I can lift it myself but prefer to keep it in one piece and use ramps.
Holy moly, that is beautiful, mate. I can only imagine how good globular clusters must look through that thing. Waa waa!
Congratulations on the new gear. I look forward to catching up with you on the tennis court (or are you going to defect to the visual field?) at the next Border Stargaze. ; )
Holy moly, that is beautiful, mate. I can only imagine how good globular clusters must look through that thing. Waa waa!
Congratulations on the new gear. I look forward to catching up with you on the tennis court (or are you going to defect to the visual field?) at the next Border Stargaze. ; )
H
Thanks, H!
It will be set up on the tennis court - it is too convenient and I enjoy the company of astro-imagers
It's a shame we did not get to talk much at BSG (my fault), are you coming to Snake Valley in November?
. The result was worth every second of the wait though.
wow Alex very very nice 
your not getting out of it that easy your bringing yours cause i know how to use your scope 
