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Post by davy on Apr 6, 2018 9:25:37 GMT
Confirmed today skywatcher has made a hash of it,, cheers. The scope has no confirmed date for hitting the UK,, mid June at earliest.. Cancelled mine and the money I paid for it is now getting the skywatcher sky adventurer full kit £265+ delivery,, coming next week,, wasn't waiting till the summer for the 72
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Post by davy on Apr 6, 2018 9:26:05 GMT
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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 6, 2018 13:31:04 GMT
Cooool! Another mount to play with
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Post by davy on Apr 6, 2018 17:45:14 GMT
Yip 😁,, the new mount fill go in the car and I will stuck in my canon 450d modded camera,, The second hand lenses have arrived and so has the eos to fd adapter ,,so it's something to play with,, be good kit f the car,, can set up in jig time,, fancied the new mount since I saw it,, scope wise ,,yip would have been nice but the zwo and canon lenses can do just as well hopefully,, and I now have a more portable eq mount as well now
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Post by ChrisV on Apr 7, 2018 4:48:04 GMT
So we still don't know if the evostar72 actually exists Yours truly the delusional, paranoid, doomsday prepper ...
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Post by davy on Apr 7, 2018 6:50:42 GMT
It's a bit like the loch ness monster,,you want to believe it exists,, but we really need to see it 😂
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Post by davy on Apr 7, 2018 6:59:29 GMT
Think I made the right decision binning it just now,, i will get more use from the star adventurer, got the adapter for the fd lenses and have two fd lenses now,, just need to see if I can do something with them now,, Foreseeable problem is going to be hooking two adapters together , zwo/eos to eos/fd , it will more than likely act like a macro tube,, but if it goes Pete tong I can still use the fd lenses on my canon cameras and canon eos lenses on the zwo. Hopefully test later. Out with pipe band today, got roped into playing bass drum for them.
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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 7, 2018 10:09:55 GMT
So we still don't know if the evostar72 actually exists Yours truly the delusional, paranoid, doomsday prepper ... It exists. Several CN members in USA, France, an UK been using them and posting reports and pics. Probably sold out fast because they are cheap as chips, See here for reviews from owners: www.cloudynights.com/topic/600111-skywatcher-72mm-ed-evostar/
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Post by davy on Apr 8, 2018 21:01:11 GMT
The new mount gets delivered tomorrow,, so Scotland,, brace yourself for more extreme weather and it won't be a heatwave 😂. Got the fd to eos adapter and it's wrong,, think I will start a big bin for stuff I've bought for astronomy that's not worth a a monkeys. 😀
Always got to good news as well,, got the camfi adapter out and running through it all again and it's going on the modded canon 450d / star adventurer as a grab n go set up,, does video on the 600d so when I get the right adapter for the fast fd lenses I might have a useful bit if kit
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