SW Equinox 100 F9 APO & other APOs

Solar B · SW Equinox 100 F9 APO & other APOs

Have for sale an Equinox 100,i have owned this scope from new
and it is in Mint Condition.
Comes with its own dedicated case and a 1.10 focuser.
This scope offers Flawless Pinsharp Colour free images,and uses
FPL53 glass,the OTA itself is finished in a glorious black lustre.
I can guarantee that this scope will preform as well as (if not better than)
any other 100mm refractor available,and will last a lifetime.
All yours for £550.

Also have a Meade 5000 series 80mm Triplet

And a William Optics Megrez 11 80mm Fluorite for sale.

Cheers......Brian

Cosmic

Brian
would that make a good viewfinder for the 12" dob???
I don't know much about astronomy being a newbie but I always look to -Older- members for advice and guidance. Wink

Cosmic

astrogeorge

Hi Brian,
How much do you want for your 80mm refractors? As I'm looking for a guide scope and i think either one of your 800mm scopes would do the job.

Solar B

astrogeorge

Brian,
Just a quick question, does the meade come with the case and star diagonal?

George

Solar B

Hi George

I sent you a PM yesterday re the Meade triplet.

Brian

astrogeorge

Brian,
I'll think it over and get backk to you

Cosmic

Just back from London with my new scope 8" Meade LX90 UHC and set up in the observatory. Its looks great! Tried out the GPS on the Autostar works a treat. Got a lovely mead lens case with Eight eyepieces plus apo barlow and set of filters with adjustable polarizing filter and light pollution filter and a dew heater. Great bargain. Can't wait for clear night Sad

cosmic

astrogeorge

Sounds good Geoff, I've got the 2x apo barlow and its amazing. Look forward to hearing your first report.

Solar B

Please Gentlemen do not contaminate this Apochromatic thread
with discussions on mirrored devices,as they are mere Pastiche Wink

Brian

Cosmic

Now Brian

NOw then, you know that I'm a newbie and know absolutely nothing about Astronomy so humour me and explain whyit is that when NASA launches a space telescope they are all mirrored devices?
Seems to me if they are good enough for NASA they are good enough for me:) or am I being totally silly about this Cornish Pastiche?

I may one day buy one of these APO's for low importance stuff like transits of NIBIRU hehehehe

Cosmic

Solar B

Now Geoff

Yes that is completely true that NASA do indeed use mirrors
for nearly all of their most important telescopes.
However this is where any resemblance ends.
The quality of the mirrors that they use are so far removed
from any that you or i have ever used,that i lack the
articulation to discribe.
They are really optically perfect,they take years to polish
and cost millions of $.
So yes i would be happy with a NASA spec mirror Cool

Brian