philjay Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Is there no hope for me? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69947839/full.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Absolutely none by the looks of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Abandon all hope How many scopes do you have nowadays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Not enough I would say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I see the de-clutter is going well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest foundaplanet Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Well done, I saw that, it looks very smart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 oh dear Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glider Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Doh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazz Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 That's smart Phil, just what you needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 Abandon all hope How many scopes do you have nowadays? Not as many as Kim apparently :-) The problem is its a Henry Wildey signed objective, my f15 is the same, couldnt stop myself, this ones f11.75 so slightly different :-) honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 We believe you Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 Well after a objective strip and clean up, recollimation and a general clean and faff about making things work again I managed an hour last night with the scope. Star tests were excellent, my day time collimation was only slightly off so a slight tweak of one screw set was required to give nice round intra and extra focus discs. Stars were nice and round with the classic bullseye effect. Because the moon was up and just past full I was limited to what I could use the scope on so it was limited to bright objects My 1st call was a few doubles Epsilon Lyra @ 90 mag was split into 4 components easily. Albireo had superb colour (even Fliss who is a muggle had a look at this and remarked on how nice it was) Epsilon Bootes Xi Bootes Alcor Mizar system All split with consummate ease. Whilst waiting for the moon to come out of clouds and rise a bit more I had a laugh and tried for a few DSOs M13, M57, were easy with detail but swamped by the moonlight but I was happy with the detail I saw Bronchis cluster (Coathanger) excellent in my Celestron X Cell 40mm, just nut enough FOV to get it all in So onto the moon where it showed great promise. Initially I dint use any filters as I wanted to check CA and there was a little but nowhere near as much as I expected from an F12 achro (I am used to F15 achros). As the moon rose higher and clouds cleared detail started popping out nicely, Rima Petavius was very clear and nicely defined. Due to the atmospherics I kept mag down to 120x and below. CA was well controlled showing a little colour (to my eyes) only on the limb and edges of bright terminator craters. The performance was what I expected from a Whildey objective and Im not disappointed. Some say that towards the end of his career, as he got older, quality dropped off, so this was going to be a gamble as 1987 was late in his career but I have to say its a good un. The performance together with the light weight make this a really good powerful grab and go, The whole set up can be lifted and carted about the garden. So this will get used on the occasions when Im not well enough to maul the heavy F15 about, a nice alternative I just don't know where Im going to store it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckstar Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Nice scope Phil, looks beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Nice write up Phil. Iam sure there's room somewhere to squirrel away a needy frac, if not I'll look after it for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nightfisher Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Hi Phil, glad its performing well it looks a lovely scope, great write up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted August 28, 2013 Author Share Posted August 28, 2013 After a few tweaks, sprayed the finder satin black to match the main OTA and fitted a Synta Spreader and tray to the tripod to make it a little safer for the scope to avoid its legs slipping on polished surfaces. Its a nice scope and nice and simple, no faffing with wires, alignment etc, just pick it up, set it down and observe, just what I need after spending too many nights trying to get PHD graphs flat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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