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Posts Made By: Markus Ludes

September 13, 2007 09:20 PM Forum: Eyepieces

$ 30,000 eyepiece

Posted By Markus Ludes

160 mm focallenght
200 mm field stop
lens design: 2 elements , made by Zeiss West Germany
Type Huygens

New cost $ 30,000

see attached image

Markus

October 6, 2007 11:02 AM Forum: Eyepieces

Ethos 13 mm steel the show at ITT in Ausstria :-)

Posted By Markus Ludes

First of all, hello from Alan Traino ( NEAF Chairman ) and Markus Ludes ( APM-Telescopes) and from Philip Noack ( Baader's Boy ),

we arrived here this week wednesday with a some Ethos 13 mm in our lagguage to show it and test it in many telescopes.

We have been lucky so far with the night sky and could use the Ethos in many difrent scopes , like 80 mm F/6 Apo, 6"F/15 Mak, 16"F/4.5 Dob, 20"F/4 Dob, Meade 14"F/8 RCX and other diffrent kind of scopes.

Side by side we used also Panoptics 15 mm , Nagler 13 mm and other eyepieces.

Many customers came by , several heard about the Ethos but have had no mind yet. They has been like many others > reserved due the high price.

But when they used the Ethos in the night , they came back more and more often to the scope to look through and through again and again, because they could not get that picture out of hear head.

The Ethos blows away here everybodys mind and now they understand the already started fame of this eyepiece.

My personal favourite view was 2 Ethos in Binoviewer without barlow in my TMB 115 F/7 Apo at the douple cluster , dumbell and Andromeda against a Fujinon 25 x 150 ED Binocular.

The Fuji has only 25 x power and providet a more flat field impression, the Ethos/TMB combo was about 60 x power , providet better black background and way better 3 dimensional view.

The ultra large field of the Ethos under nice mountain sky leaves you to believe you sitting in a Imax Theater when you look through.

The Single and Bino Ethos became the big winner's of our Starparty here, wow you really missing something

clear skies

Markus Ludes

December 10, 2007 09:58 PM Forum: APM

New Solar Observing Filters for our Telescopes

Posted By Markus Ludes

Hi Guys, Hi Danny,

finaly we started to work in a superlative Team to produce for you guys and your nice toys the best possible solarfilters available these days.
Its the first time, me, Markus Ludes can say , Made in USA , to products I am involved and i like that . In addition I got already a few more great friends ...

come and find out which fitting the best to your scope, if you are not shure , ask me or Mark who will carry this new stuff as well

look here for new and more info's

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/luntsolar/


enjoy the sunny day

Markus Ludes

December 14, 2007 09:13 AM Forum: APM

10"F/9 APM Apo

Posted By Markus Ludes

made for a customer this morning a picture of my own one which I used this autum for solarobserving and Mars :-)

enjoy
Markus Ludes

December 24, 2007 03:07 PM Forum: APM

Merry Christmas to all of you over the World

Posted By Markus Ludes

Hello Friends all over the world,

before I shut down my computer I want to take this last chance and wish you all and your famiies and friends very nice christmas holidays and a very peacefull year 2008

Markus Ludes

January 16, 2008 10:32 AM Forum: Astro-Physics

Rolando be carefull at NEAF

Posted By Markus Ludes

Rolando be carefull at NEAF, Alan Traino, NEAF Chairman is always hunting for Donations and he has your El Capitan in his eyes, see attached image :-)

Markus

January 24, 2008 10:02 PM Forum: APM

Markus gone to Tucson and WSP, by for next 2 weeks

Posted By Markus Ludes

hello Friends,

in 9 hours I go to the airport to fly to Tucson, Arizona, to see what my partners doing with Luntsolarsystems, then going back 3 days to New Jersey to my brother, then driving down by car to WSP ín Florida near Key West and coming back to Germany at 10. February

hope to meet many of you, enjoy your hobby and scope and have fun with your talks

bye

Markus Ludes

April 6, 2008 01:44 PM Forum: APM

Maybe a new 6" ED below $ 5,000 from APM ??

Posted By Markus Ludes


Some of you know we working on a 180 mm F/6 ED Doublet for under $ 8,000. We
are delayed again, 20 pc Ohara blanks turned out beeing not of good enough
quality, but Ohara inspector promissed to fix the problem and send now good
enough quality blanks, so we hope to see first good sample after 2 month.

In the mean time we will design this week a new modell 152 mm F/7 doublet ED
with matched flattner fully covering STL11000 chip format.

The optical design will be made in Germany by Astroooptik Philipp Keller,
our optical designer expert.

For this project Starlight Instruments designed exclusiv for APM a new 2.5"
size Feather Touch Focuser which we will use for this project and telescope.

We will sell matched systems only, that means the ED Lens will be matched
with the flattner as 1 optical set and sold as those. You will use the ED
for visuel purposes without the flattner and for imaging purpose the
flatttner . The lens and flattner will have engraved serial numbers.

Yes the optics will be made in China, we will use the same small company
which makes our well known quality achromatic telescopes 8". We trust them !

Yes the tube mechanics will be made in China first ! , with mechanical
auto-cad drawings made by my german engineer. I have the idea and dream to
open next year in Tucson, Arizona a own maschine shop where we create
working places for american workers and maschine all our self. Saving import
dutie and shipping, shall allow us the beat up the growing china prices,
which are not that cheap if you ask real quality and tolerance keeping work.

Yes the focuser will be USA made by Starlight Instruments.

The present calculation say , we shall be able to sell you the 6"F/7 doulet
ED with matched STL11000 fflattner, 2.5" Starlight focuser, set of CNC
Tuberings, 50 mm iluminated finder for less then $ 5,000 > about $ 4,990.

Me and my US dealers will start a interest list and when we finished first
samples which past our controle with success, we will start serial
production with 4 to 6 weeks delivery time maximum.


Detlef and Brigitte from Starlight try here best that i can show the new
2.5" focuser at NEAF.

At NEAF my dealers will show you also the Optical Layout and spotdiagrams as
a kind of Grand Information !


thanks for your interest


Markus Ludes
APM-Telescopes

July 17, 2008 08:12 PM Forum: APM

1 pc 80/480 LOMO left for sale

Posted By Markus Ludes

Hello all

we getting a small limited run of new LOMO 80/480 lenses in 1,2 weeks from LOMO, only 1 pc of this shipment is left for sale. if you hunting for one, we have all kind of tubes in stock

thanks for your interested

Markus Ludes

July 17, 2008 08:13 PM Forum: APM

APM 2 weeks on vacation

Posted By Markus Ludes

Hello everybody

saturday this week I start a 2 weeks solar eclipse Tour through China with my wife as vacation, will be back in the office at 5. August

thank you

Markus Ludes