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Post by davy on Oct 26, 2015 19:33:54 GMT
We need to get unc posting a bit more.. the sly dog ..has been a busy little engineer lately, came into the garage today to get wheel alignment done on his good lady's car, and the car was sitting doing wheelies with his latest project sitting on the back seat... a samsung scb2000 custom fitted via step up adapters ect to the biggest aperture lens I have seen all fitted to a custom mount he has made and welded together... clyde built is the expression used in Scotland for a feat of wizard engineering. . I think the lens fell off of a cia satellite and fell in his back garden. .its massive. . He has also added a mount piece to this for a very very big set of binos.. mount.. try a tv camera mount.. cmon unc spill the beans.
oh and has the eq8 and another lx90.. plenty to talk about unc lol
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Post by Dragon Man on Oct 27, 2015 5:36:04 GMT
DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL!!! Sounds good Come on John, tell all WITH PHOTOS!
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Post by davy on Oct 27, 2015 7:44:35 GMT
He is heading south of the border today to pick up a mount for his eq8..might not hear from him till tonight.lol
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Post by Rick in NWArk on Oct 27, 2015 14:48:31 GMT
Pics or it didnt happen. :-P
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Post by davy on Oct 27, 2015 17:38:23 GMT
Lol rick ..real life is stranger than fiction. . between us we could have a massive observatory kitted out. Unc has 12" & 10" meade lx90 scopes. Eq8and tripod if all went well at the buying point. Cameras and binos. Ive got the eq3/2 pro.az3.sw all view..meade etx 80....2x scb2000.1x scb2001. Samsung allview dome cam all with utc controllers.phil dyer pd1. . Watec 902h. . Qhy 5l 11.. canin 450 d..2x canon 600d .. a portable dvr and screen..tons of cables and adapters. 2 laptops and a base station. . waiting on unc getting an obs lol.
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Post by Dragon Man on Oct 28, 2015 5:50:41 GMT
Lol rick ..real life is stranger than fiction. . between us we could have a massive observatory kitted out. Unc has 12" & 10" meade lx90 scopes. Eq8and tripod if all went well at the buying point. Cameras and binos. Ive got the eq3/2 pro.az3.sw all view..meade etx 80....2x scb2000.1x scb2001. Samsung allview dome cam all with utc controllers.phil dyer pd1. . Watec 902h. . Qhy 5l 11.. canin 450 d..2x canon 600d .. a portable dvr and screen..tons of cables and adapters. 2 laptops and a base station. . waiting on unc getting an obs lol. Starting to sound like NASA
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Post by Rick in NWArk on Oct 28, 2015 14:08:56 GMT
So right Ken... he just needs a couple of dark acres that has electricity and plumbing and they can start putting up a star shack. I dont suppose you can get government grant $$$ to start an observatory, Davy?
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Post by davy on Oct 28, 2015 17:56:06 GMT
Aye right rick..government only takes money off of you.. but mr prime minister if you're looking in on the forum a wee free bit of land wouldn't go amiss lol.
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Post by Rick in NWArk on Oct 29, 2015 15:23:49 GMT
Sell it as the British Empire can only expand via Space... :-P
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scopemobile
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Post by scopemobile on Oct 29, 2015 20:45:37 GMT
sorry for not coming in earlier , but the boss and i are still trying to work out the way to post a picture. tomorrow or saturday hopefully, i did get the eq tripod on tuesday, collected on the a69 at haltwhistle, local dog walkers were giving it heavy suspicion as we moved the coffinlike flight case between cars [shades of spy transfers at the brandenburg gate in old berlin] ,the seller was extremely knowlegable, [astrophotography],and posts on sgl. john.
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Post by davy on Oct 29, 2015 21:23:30 GMT
so unc,, tell us more on the lens you have attatched the Samsung scb2000
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Post by davy on Oct 31, 2015 4:30:32 GMT
Talking to uncle john last night and he was saying the lens he has fitted to the sammy is a Russian made 1000mm mirror lens..cant wait to see what that will do ..mind boggles
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Post by davy on Oct 31, 2015 5:34:59 GMT
Did a bit hunting around the internet for Russian lens . .looks like it may be an mto lens made from the 1950 to present day ..good optics and solid construction around f10 but we all would have thought that at 1000mm , saw some images of the moon and they were ok. It has issues on cameras and photographic tripods ..picks up a lot of heat distortion. . How will it fair on sense up mode on an eq mount who knows.. Other issue value wise.. £85 + postage price of a cheap scope. . but the optics on the Russian lens are very good..
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