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New TMB 130F/9.25 Super Planetary Triplet Apo

Started by apmtelescopes, 04/13/2005 08:53AM
Posted 04/13/2005 08:53AM | Edited 04/13/2005 08:58AM Opening Post
today new Lightweight Tubes arrived, so we could fix the final specs now, see below

thanks
Markus Ludes

New TMB 130f/9.25 Light weight Super Planetary Apo ( CNC-LW & LW )
After the great success of our new light weight tubes for the TMB 105/6.2 and TMB 115F/7 Apo's we start now to follow the request of our international customers and create a new TMB 130F/9.25 LW Tube version. Here we doing 2 diffrent modells: 1, a upscaled 1:1 version of our known smaller TMB LW Tubes with retractable dew shield, 50 mm finderbracket , set of tuberings, GP-Mountrail, movable quickfocuse drawtube with attached 2" Starlight instruments Feather Touch foc user. The expected final weight of this version will be about 18 pound.
Its mainly designed to work with CCD Cameras and 35 mm SLR Cameras and for binoviewing without barlowlenes/optical pathcorrector 2, this second version is almost identical with the first version, excapt that the new 3.5" Starlight Instruments Feather Touch focuser replace the 2" focuser with its drawtube.
The expect weight is in the 20 pound. Its mainly designed for customers who thinking about medium format imaging




Technical Specification Value
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- Clear Aperature 130 mm
- Focallength 1202 mm
- Triplet airspacest fully multicoated Super Planetary Apo
- F-ratio F/9.25
- Tubeweight with 3.5" focuser 9 kg (= 19.8 Lbs)
- Tubeweight with 2" focuser 7 kg ( 15.4 lbs)
- Shortest possible tubelength for transport 1040 mm ( 40.95 inch )
- tubelength with extendet dew shield 1200 mm ( 47.24 inch)
- Observing Lenght with 2" stardiagonal to end of focuser 1300 mm ( 51.18 inch )
- Focusersize for CNC-LW Version 3.5" Starlight Feathertouch , 360° rotatable
- Focusersize for LW Version 2" Starlight Feather Touch, 360° rotatable with sliding drawtube
- Weight of tubering set 1 kg ( = 2.2 lbs)
- Adapters include down to 1.25"
- Finder non ( optional )
- Focusertravel for CNC-LW Version with 3.5" focuser 113 mm ( 4.45 inch)
- Focusertravel for CNC-LW Version with 2" focuser 165 mm
( 6.5 inch)
- Backfocuse maximum : 220 mm ( 8.66 inch )
- Tubediameter for LW Version 145 mm ( 5.7 inch )
- Dewshield diameter for LW Version 175 mm ( 6.9 inch )


Prices

TMB 130 f/9.25 LW Version with rings, rail, finderbracket, adapter 2"/1.25"

for European Buyers incl. 16% VAT Euro 4.795

for oversea customers , Export Price US $ 4,990



TMB 130 f/9.25 CNC-LW Version with CNC Rings, Adapters down to 1.25", finderbracket

for European Buyers incl. 16% VAT Euro 5.590

for oversea customers , Export Price US $ 5,990



Delivery time for each Modell about 3 month from date of Order

Image show the 130F/9.25 and the 130F/6 side by side


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clear skies

Markus Ludes
APM-Telescopes/Germany