the LP is here , nice build ., well worth the money .
I cant take any decent photos because when I get home at 6.30pm its a little dingey ( dark) , . and the lovely gloss black finish dont show up very well in a flash .
The 11 to 1 focuser is very smooth , not as good as my supercharged GSO 10 to1 on my ED80, and I wont mention the FT3035 at this time .
but it aint bad , in the same league as my GSO b4 it got worked on.
Optics ,,, ?? well , the weather up here is bad , cyclones every where , so its very cloudy .
I took the 90mm f/5 and my sweet ED80 f/7.5 out on to the deck last night and using my 13mm Nagler in the 90mm and my 17mm Nagler in my Ed80 on a street light 1/2 a Km up the street . ....
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I was under whelmed wth the 90mm LP .. more colour than my old SV Aplanat ???? , the Ed80 blew it away . F/7.5 against F/5.5 , but still the LP was not doing it !! World class eyepieces , so the problem was not there.?
Here I was asking for a comparo with Flashes up and comming TV85 and Morton's SV80mm , ,,, I was ready to hide under a rock ... Sorry guy's ..
Then it hit me , I had just done the oppisite to most people do , and thats take a scope from a cool air conditioned house at 24 degrees into the NT's hot and humid 33 degrees , and the poor 90mm lense had to acclimatise to the heat , Woaw !! , After 1/2 an hour , the 3 way comparisim was back on ,, Nice views , as sharp and perfectly colour free as my ED80 ,, but so much brighter . 10mm is a lot . , I am impressed .
Photos comming .
Brian.
After 1/2 an hour , the 3 way comparisim was back on ,, Nice views , as sharp and perfectly colour free as my ED80 ,, but so much brighter . 10mm is a lot . , I am impressed .
Photos comming .
Brian.
Here is a few photos of the new 90mm APO , its a lot smaller than I thought it would be , you con see in the photos . Its only a little fatter than my Darlin's Pronto.
Enjoy .I will ..... when the weather clears , new scope skies here ,
5mm's ,, Flash ,,,
Thanks Flash and Steve , all we need now is a little fine weather , but I did get a peek at the moon yesterday morning at 5am and it was very nice, super sharp and lots of detail seen .
Steve stick with it if you want and scopes like this will become common place as the chinese pump them out , good for us tho . .
Brian.
Hi all , here is a few more photos of my LP90mm APO on its final resting place , my lovely Vixen Polaris mount .
The Losmonday holdere is the spare that come with my ED127 , and all I had to do was fabricate up a rail at work over this last weekend ( yes working 7 days ) , its a lot cheeper than buying one thats for sure !! .
Hope you all enjoy , as I do .
ps. I had an awsome session last night with this set up , ( day off today ) and I cant praise the Vixen mount enough , a really nice mount for the 90mm . .
Brian.
Many thanks for posting these pics - Ill be watching with keen interest on your astrophotos. Im still keen on the orion but as said earlier could be persuaded otherwise.
Thanks Petra , what ever you choose I think it would be a good choice , so much well priced gear around today .
On the gear thing , here are a few more photos of the 90mm APO with its new Antares 90degree 50mm finder that arrived today courtisy of a fellow IIS"r , thanks Troy ..
Brian.
Hi Brian,
Another refractor sees the light WOOHOO. Can't have to many as you know Just been pointing my 4 and 6" scopes at the moon for the first time and very impressive too not much colour at all. Hope your beautiful black scope is giving great views.Love the illuminated finderscope.
Cheers, Matt
I suspect this is the same scope as the Megrez 88 f/5.6, but a couple hundred cheaper - it would be interesting to have them side by side to see if the view is the same.
Tony it would seem like that, i wonder why WO thought decreasing aperture from 90 to 88 would make much diff esp when they have the M90. i would have thought a triplet 85 would have made more marketing sense
Daniel, there might be a difference in the clear aperture or not - the Stellarvue 105 triplet has the same lense cell as the Sharpstar 106 and APM 107, and now the Sharpstar 106 has been replaced by a Sharpstar 107 - marketing funny buggers.
the LP is here , nice build .
, well worth the money . 
. and the lovely gloss black finish dont show up very well in a flash . 
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, After 1/2 an hour , the 3 way comparisim was back on ,, Nice views , as sharp and perfectly colour free as my ED80 ,, but so much brighter . 10mm is a lot .
, I am impressed .
we will
she'll be in the running mate ... 
TV85
you con see in the photos .
,, Flash ,,, 
