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12-11-2011, 04:28 AM
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Plays well with others!
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Ridgefield CT USA
Posts: 3,535
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Biggest is 15 inch but I also have 12.5 inch, 8 inch (all newtonian reflecting scopes) and a 5 inch refractor
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12-11-2011, 08:32 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: NSW Country
Posts: 3,586
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Quote:
Originally Posted by icytailmark
C14 here and its bloody hard setting up by myself
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I'll swap you for my 10" then 
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12-11-2011, 10:31 AM
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Lost in Namibia
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Albury NSW
Posts: 3,134
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20"
Cheers Petra d.
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12-11-2011, 03:38 PM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Broken Hill N.S.W
Posts: 3,305
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sixteeeeeeeen inchs of pure unadulterated mirror.
Cheers Kev.
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12-11-2011, 04:14 PM
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Supernova Searcher
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Cambroon Queensland Australia
Posts: 9,326
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16" Dob,8"SCT 2.4" Refractor. 
Cheers 
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13-11-2011, 12:58 AM
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Starcatcher
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gerringong
Posts: 8,548
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12" reflector on dobsonian mount.
8" SCT.
4" short tube refractor.
2 x 8" reflectors
a few 2" Galileoscope refractors
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13-11-2011, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Beaumont Hills NSW
Posts: 2,900
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13-11-2011, 12:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Launceston
Posts: 758
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Only a $30 6" Newt 
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13-11-2011, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: E.P. S.A.
Posts: 4,963
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Had a Meade DS 16", and now Meade LX200 14" OTA.
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14-11-2011, 01:07 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Posts: 79
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My Meade 16"LX200GPS is my biggest at the moment. It takes me about 30 minutes to set up on my own.
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14-11-2011, 01:18 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Wynnum West, Brisbane.
Posts: 4,166
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Did you mean the biggest scope ever owned or the biggest currently owned?
I had a 12" dob for a while but I'm back to an 8" RC now.
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14-11-2011, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 690
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12" lightbridge on order
Far too much gear.
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14-11-2011, 07:34 AM
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star-hopper
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Terranora
Posts: 4,391
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tandum
Did you mean the biggest scope ever owned or the biggest currently owned?
I had a 12" dob for a while but I'm back to an 8" RC now.
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The aperture of the biggest telescope currently owned.
The 12" is ahead in the poll at this stage with 24 votes out of 100.
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14-11-2011, 02:24 PM
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Rickapoodyandafandoogally
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Mardi NSW, Australia
Posts: 1,123
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14" Orion truss dob. Just enough to handle comfortably.
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14-11-2011, 04:08 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 321
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Wow this poll makes me feel very privileged to own our 16" Dob.
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14-11-2011, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Bright, Vic, Australia
Posts: 2,187
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Three scopes - 80mm (3+") achro refractor, 114mm (4.5") reflector and a whopping big 127mm (5") achro refractor. The latter is far too big to use of course. 
Cheers -
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17-11-2011, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Kilmore, Australia
Posts: 3,365
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9.25 Celestron SCT here. A nice balance between big (Would love bigger) and portable. I can break it down, carry it out, set it up and have it cooling off outside in about five minutes. About as heavy as I would want to carry too.
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22-11-2011, 09:07 PM
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The Glenfallus
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Central Coast, NSW
Posts: 2,702
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My wife refers to my 20" SDM as a "phallus-scope".
It is very wide and very long, and takes your breath away went pointing up, collecting excited photons.
The views through the Mary Rose are out of this world. It is so much fun to play with in the dark.
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22-11-2011, 09:55 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Sydney
Posts: 1,809
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodstar
My wife refers to my 20" SDM as a "phallus-scope".
It is very wide and very long, and takes your breath away went pointing up, collecting excited photons.
The views through the Mary Rose are out of this world. It is so much fun to play with in the dark.
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Very nice Rod
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23-11-2011, 07:28 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Shoalhaven Heads, NSW
Posts: 2,620
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodstar
My wife refers to my 20" SDM as a "phallus-scope".
It is very wide and very long, and takes your breath away went pointing up, collecting excited photons.
The views through the Mary Rose are out of this world. It is so much fun to play with in the dark.
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Hi Rod,
I hope the "phallus scope" comes out a bit more regularly than Comet McNaughty returns for a loop around the sun
Cheers,
John B
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