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16" Newtonian GOTO
My huge 16" ex-Dob has to go.
I have decided to down-scale to a Maksutov that I can actually lift by myself so my Dob has to move over. It now needs a loving new home. It is an ex-Meade Starfinder that now sits on a custom mount with a full Bartels stepper system and associated electronics and controlled by its own laptop running Win98/DOS. It has a Meade 70mm (x600) finder with its own diagonal and CCD plus illuminated 12.5 mm reticle (for a bit of variety) and a second CCD (3 Meg) on the main - both linked into a second Laptop. It also runsd Project Pluto Guide V8.0 and some other stuff (Stellarium and CDC). The mount has 2 side trays that hold the batteries, 300 Watt Sine Wave inverter, Bartels Box and 2 laptops (avoiding the bulk of cable clutter), some Halogen red lights, power board and takeoffs for an MP3 player and small speakers (ya gotta have music right?).
I paid $3600 for 2 years ago it before refurbishing and rebuilding it and in the process, spending another $1200 or so on a full Bartels replacement including steppers.
I haven't had an opportunity to give it some light until I take it to a starfest in Qld at the end of Sept. after that, it is ready to go.
I'll post some pics if anyone is interested.
It's a pickup only job in SE Qld.
Any offers?
Peter
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