Your own telescope.

**Ivan Maly** · January 11th, 2013, 09:42 PM

All three look good, Davide.

**i_sairanen** · March 27th, 2013, 11:56 AM

Hello everybody! This is my first post to this forum, actually I found this only a week ago. The weather in Finland has been very depressing during the winter so my telescopes have been out of use several months. Fortunately it seems to be better now... but we have only one month time before summer nights.

My main instrument is a 18" Dobson which I keep on a relatively dark countryside. SQM is usually 21.3 - 21.6 mag/arcsec and limiting magnitude 6.5 - 7.0.

12" GSO dobson is a secondary instrument. I use this on my backyard and on astronomical meetings, public shows etc. It fits nicely in my car and is easy to transport.

An old TAL-1, 4.3" newton is nowadays for traveling. I started in deepsky with TAL-1 in 1995 and it works still well. I have built lighter setup for traveling and used it succesfully three times in Canary Island and once in Australia. Hopefully more trips are yet to come.

**Ivan Maly** · March 27th, 2013, 12:14 PM

It is an excellent selection of scopes, and you have some dark skies, Iiro. Great website, too. I especially liked the collection of sketches from Australia. You did a good job there!
It is a great-looking scope, Daniel. Almost funny to see it assembled in that interior.

**Jimi Lowrey** · March 27th, 2013, 04:55 PM

Daniel what a beautiful looking telescope.

Iiro welcome to Deep Sky Forum!

**Dragan** · March 27th, 2013, 08:32 PM

Iiro, welcome to DSF.

I must say, you have quite the collection of sketches!! Unbelievable!!

**dacker** · April 21st, 2013, 03:53 PM

Sorry everybody, I don't own a big DOB and I don't want one. I observe with small telescopes and here is just one of them.WO Megrez 90 APO.jpg
William Optics Megrez 90 APO.

**Joe C** · April 24th, 2013, 07:12 AM

I had a TMB 130 SS that I imaged with and a 12" LX200 GPS for viewing. I was saving for a 20+" sub F4 Teeter or Starmaster when someone stole my funds. Watch out for Roland. He is good at what he does.

Now this is what I image and do my viewing with now. Guess I will have to start saving again.

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**nicoscy** · April 24th, 2013, 10:39 AM

And here's mine which has seen first light 2 weeks ago...photo 3.jpg

**Ivan Maly** · April 24th, 2013, 02:14 PM

What is the focal ratio, Nicos?

**nicoscy** · April 24th, 2013, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ivan Maly

What is the focal ratio, Nicos?

Hi Ivan,

f5.3

First light was 2 weeks ago and I hadn't dialled the collimation right so only took it to 122x.

Fixed it (barlowed laser collimation did the trick just fine) but now must wait for the orbiting lightbulb (moon) to disappear so that I can crank it up and see how far down (or up in this case) the rabbit hole goes.

I am itching to see how it performs on the planets, being f5.3 and all. Then I will put that out of my mind and concentrate on a strict high protein diet of DSO...

**Ivan Maly** · April 24th, 2013, 03:56 PM

Strange, it looked longer to me.

**nicoscy** · April 24th, 2013, 03:57 PM

Photographic illusion. Probably the angle of the shot...

**Ivan Maly** · April 24th, 2013, 06:28 PM

Yes, I see it now. A case of "Bruce Lee's screen image". Regardless, excellent scope.

**Ivan Maly** · June 17th, 2013, 03:55 PM

Great scope. Standing where it belongs at one of our best sites as I can tell

Nicely captured with the setting sun.

**Ivan Maly** · July 11th, 2013, 05:09 PM

Nice scope. What's in the dome?

**Gonzo56** · July 11th, 2013, 09:38 PM

That's our club's 36", f/6.3 reflector. Here's the address: http://www.wro.org/. There's one or two articles there. A better description is on Mike Lockwood's website.

The original mirror was a 31" f/7 that was accidently destroyed in 2011. Mike fabricated the new one early last year. JP Astrocraft fabricated the mirror cell and secondary holder. After a couple of days of assembly we had first light with the new mirror in the middle of the summer.

John

**FaithJ** · July 13th, 2013, 01:14 PM

Here's my 18" f/4.3 Dobsonian, built by David Lukehurst of Nottingham, England

18scope8.jpg

It's come out a bit small, so click on the pic for full size

**bearkite** · August 30th, 2013, 03:40 PM

Ursa...

Started life as The BehemothTheBehemoth.jpg

Became Ursa after much work...

First light UrsaFirstLight.jpg

Lou and Ursa in Texas (2008) LouandUrsainTexas.jpg

**Astrojensen** · September 3rd, 2013, 08:18 PM

Dem Telekits sure look pretty!

Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark

**hajuem** · January 5th, 2014, 03:23 PM

Wow!!!Powerful und beautiful telskopes are shown here!! Great!

I observe with a 16 inch Telskop. The Teleskop was built from Reiner Vogel
For me the perfect telescope!
weight 30kg
IMG_3506.jpg

CS Hajü
www.astromerk.de

**DuaneS** · January 7th, 2014, 01:07 AM

This is my 30" Starstructure F/3.3
Starstructure 30 dob.jpg

**ransanjaya** · January 22nd, 2014, 09:13 AM

This is my small dob......!
10" F/4.7...!
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**Timm** · June 15th, 2014, 04:22 PM

Hi,
here my brandnew 21" ultralight lowrider.
Just 25 kg!
http://www.astrotreff.de/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=166990

Timm

**Jimi Lowrey** · June 15th, 2014, 05:25 PM

Great looking Ultralight scope Timm ! Have you had first light?

**Timm** · June 15th, 2014, 06:45 PM

Yes,

but without coating... the uncoated mirror schows a perfekt image of polaris.
Intra and extrafocal nearly equal, without any astigmatism.
This lowrider is perfect in balance and handling!
May be my best selfmade dobson ever...

Timm

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