Not long ago, Greg Nowell needed some photos of EQ mounted Newtonians with an observer for a presentation and asked if I had any. (Privately he told me he knew most you had photos but he chose me because I was the best looking. 8O )
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Since I didn't have any photos of myself with the smaller scopes I took this as an opportunity. This photo is a typical San Diego backyard observing session, a telescope/mount or two of some sort, my beloved and well-worn Starbound chair, the table with some binos, a shortwave radio and the eyepiece case.
The telescope is an early model Synta/Konus 200mm F/5 Newtonian riding in a set of Antares Rotating rings (thanks Pollux) on a CG-5 ASGT KNOW-TO mount. I decided on the term KNOW-TO because while it has the GOTO feature, it don't get used 'cause I like to navigate the skies myself. In the photo I believe I was viewing a nice clean split of Porrima at about 1.25 arc-seconds using a 3.5mm Nagler + Paracorr for about 325X. The focuser was replaced with a Orion Crayford which is shorter and so I use the Paracorr as an extension.
Jon
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Since I didn't have any photos of myself with the smaller scopes I took this as an opportunity. This photo is a typical San Diego backyard observing session, a telescope/mount or two of some sort, my beloved and well-worn Starbound chair, the table with some binos, a shortwave radio and the eyepiece case.
The telescope is an early model Synta/Konus 200mm F/5 Newtonian riding in a set of Antares Rotating rings (thanks Pollux) on a CG-5 ASGT KNOW-TO mount. I decided on the term KNOW-TO because while it has the GOTO feature, it don't get used 'cause I like to navigate the skies myself. In the photo I believe I was viewing a nice clean split of Porrima at about 1.25 arc-seconds using a 3.5mm Nagler + Paracorr for about 325X. The focuser was replaced with a Orion Crayford which is shorter and so I use the Paracorr as an extension.
Jon
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