Posts Made By: Markus Ludes

your last chance ever for a brandnew unit


auction_id=1598

good luck

Markus

Hi All,

it took some time, but today i nfinished the complete update of our Webside with the TMB secontion with all infos and new modells. Some more will come step by step

go to the apm webside, click on the US banner on top right, make a product search for TMB and vola you are there


have fun

Markus Ludes
APM

Hi All,

so far we know a lot of chinese achromats. Most known today are :
- Skywatcher
- Burgess
- Antares
- TS-Germany

the new good modells are made by Jinghua in China, also doing scopes for Meade.

the big, old powerfull company Bresser, bought by Meade some years ago, but still working as a special department under Meade took now advantage of that new scopes with his own improvement requirements.

Bresser/Meade have a superb service center here in Germany at Meade Europe location.

We the dealers in germany have the big advantage to get this superb service free for the items we buy from Bresser/Meade

Bresser introduce now with a nice color catalogue the new line of achromatical telescopes with improvements, which are sold by some other named companys already as Semi-Apos, for whatever reason, where they are still achromats, but of good quality.

The Modells:
- Achromat D=152 mm f/760 mm with giant 4" focuser for zero vigneting , nice strong equatorial mount, strong stainless steel metaltripod, set of eyepieces, illuminated finder 8 x 50 . all togher US $ 850 ex Germany from APM

- Achromat D=127 mm f/1200 mm with giant 3" focuser for zero vigneting , nice strong equatorial mount, strong stainless steel metaltripod, set of eyepieces, illuminated finder 8 x 50 . all togher US $ 650 ex Germany from APM

- Achromat D=127 mm f/635 mm with giant 3" focuser for zero vigneting , nice strong equatorial mount, strong stainless steel metaltripod, set of eyepieces, illuminated finder 8 x 50 . all togher US $ 680 ex Germany from APM

thats scopes getting delivered in November and we plan to offer them for the US market, since we have to deal in claim cases not with China, but with one of the best service places in Europe and thats make our live very comfortable

Images of the new scopes can be found on our webside under BRESSER

have fun

Markus

after installation yesterday we have also first light :-)

Markus

if you like to see images of the newest modells and all technical specs for any TMB modell, just go to the english section of my webside. I believe there is no other webside on this planet with such complete infos

http://www.apm-telescopes.de/hersteller_uebersicht.php?kat_id=290&hersteller=TMB&action=show

Markus

Hi friends,

just finished all work from NEAF and out German Telescope Show, so started to read all the nice threads.

Wow so many new telescopes from any corner now available, everybody must start to travel now with so many toys available these days.

But be carefull we loosing the top quality scope makers, if everybody follows the chinese way.

:-(

Markus

Hello my friends,

got a bit time to post again :-), finaly.

Just a little info about our next project. Those who cannot or do not want effort our more expensive CNC and Carbon fiber tube with 2" Starlight focusers , we manufactoring with the help of William Optics a new less expensive great looking/working tube for our triplet TMB Super Apo Lenses 80 mm F/6. The tube will be very similar to the William Fluorid-FPL53 versions with dual speed focuser and case, but with metal knife edge baffles inside.
The price range will be due the superb and maybe best ever made 80 mm Apo Optics between the TMB 80 mm CNC OTA and Chinese so called douplet Fluorid Apo's.A bit above $ 1,000

just wait around 1 month longer and you see the nicest tube with the worldbest 80 mm apo for acceptable price :-)

Markus Ludes
TMB-High End Apo Maker

In February 2006 we did a new Project with William Optics to be able to have a better competition price against all the new small Apo's , so we decited to get from William Optics made a new Apo Tube for the well known TMB/LOMO triplet Super ED Apo's 80 mm f/480 mm with the features of the new modern William scopes, like his newest dual speed focuser.

The project was now finished and first run of tubes are getting shipped to us, Optics we have in stock, so we can start promoting and selling them.

Here the specs:
Newly redesigned tube, with dual speed focuser included in the price. Megrez 80 SUPERAPO refractor is an air-spaced Triplet Super Apochromatic refractor. The Russian-produced, TMB-designed F6 lens has a heart of super low dispersion Russian glass equivalent to fluorite that reduces any secondary spectrum to an unbelievable degree. It comes with L-base bracket and backpack-style water resistant carrying case.

Techn. Specs.
- Aperture 80mm
- Focal Ratio F/6
- Focal Length 480mm
- Objective Type Triplet Air-Spaced
- Resolving Power 1.45"
- Limiting Magnitude 11.3
- Lens Shade Retractable
- Focuser 2" Rotatable Crayford Focuser with 1:10 dual speed fine focus
- Travel Length 3.15" (80 mm)
- 2" Brass Compression Ring Included
- L- type Mount L- bracket based
- 1.25" Adapter Brass Compression Ring Included
- Field Stops 7 Baffles with Ultra Flat Black Interior
- Tube Diameter 90 mm
- Tube Length 14.5" (368 mm) Fully Retracted 17.6" (447 mm) Fully Extended
- Tube Weight 5.94 lbs.( 2.7 kg)
- Soft Carrying Backpack Dimensions (WxHxD) 15" x 20" x 6.5" (38.1 cmx50.8 cmx16.5 cm)

That new Modell goes for US $ 1,295 only and each sample comes with the full interferometrical Testreport.

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Markus Ludes
Markus Ludes

Hello all,

here we have the disccussion of fast apo's running, so I think my news after my success trip to Russia should be welcome very much.

Tele Vue Recently introduced here nice imaging system Apo's 60 mm, 101 mm and 127 mm, the last 2 are Petzval Apos with new larger correctors for the more and more coming large CCD Cameras.

Doing very fast apo's is a critical job to the opticians, assemblers etc.. and still require fieldflattners and due the deep radi of curvative where glas in center has much more thickness then on edge cool down time becomes a critical issue.

Tele Vue with here NP system and Takahashi with here FSQ system proofed the perfect working of Petzval Systems. Non of both doing larger systems , but the makret is definitly there for large fast imaging apo systems.

With our great Optical Production resource LZOS in Moscow and our supertalented optical Designer TMB we are happy to have a team who can make your dream thruth. The neccassary high quality mechanical tubes we will do in germany with our super talented artist Matthias.

So our Plan for 2007/2008 is to introduce 3 new modells of fast imaging system apos , optimised for the larrger CCD Cameras.

We are happy to talk here we you first which modells could be the most welcome once.

From our point of view, all shall be transportable , so our Ideas are

- 160 mm F/5 with 60 mm diffraction limited image circle
- 200 mm F/5 with 60 mm diffraction limited image circle
- 240 mm F/5 with 60 mm diffraction limited image circle

each of such telescope will be equipped as standart with the new Starlight Instruments Motofocuse with PC control Boxes and representing the state of the art of Apo Production for CCD Imaging.

If you are a serious imager and you have serious wishes we shall consider in such new production, your Ideas are more then welcome

many thanks
Markus Ludes
APM-Telescopes

a nice customer from Canada pushed us a bit to make a special TMB 105 for him , see the images.

We use the standart TMB 105 LW and add nice CNC Tuberings and a quick removable handle and get what the image show. I like it a lot and it cost only $ 100 upgrate against the standart version

Tell me how you like it , this way can be done for any LW Modell now

thanks for your feedback
Markus