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Old 25-01-2007, 09:03 PM
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New toy

Sorry for the clouds guys. My 8" reflector arrived today.

Looks pretty neat if I may say

The only bummer about is is the instructions on collimating it are in japanese so I'll need to trawl the web a bit (never collimated b4), and I thought I had the right adapters to put a camera into it but I don't, so if it clears up on the weekend I won't get a chance for anything other than visual.

The build quality on it looks nice and it is very light - 5.2kg i think.
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Old 25-01-2007, 10:04 PM
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nice compact looking setup, what are the details on the scope?
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Old 25-01-2007, 10:15 PM
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this is the guy mick ;

http://www.vixenamerica.com/Products..._or_Cat=R200SS
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Old 25-01-2007, 10:50 PM
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new toy

does look very nice. hopefully i'll have mine by the end of the year.
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Old 27-01-2007, 10:05 PM
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I'm ready to rock

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Old 28-01-2007, 12:36 AM
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Thats a beautiful looking scope Sejanus .
Now I know where all those clouds that have been passing over are heading.


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