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| Lou's 12.5" F6.8 longer focus telescope. Note the round altitude bearings, easy transport and strings. This telescope, assembled from one of our kit, took only a few days to assemble by Lou. He lives in Green Valley, Arizona. Great job Lou!! |
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| Detail how Lou mounted the altitude bearing. A great solution.... |
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| With exceptional optics, this 15" F4.5 is quite a telescope. Note the Moonlite 2- speed focuser, Easy Transport, primary dew shield and strings. |
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| Hao's 15" F4.5 features a Moonlite 2-speed focuser, full UTA, observatory grade spider and beautiful primary mirror. |
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| Here's a 12.5" kit for Lou and Gina's "long focus" Newtonian. Lou is using his home-made 12.5" mirror many years in the making! Note the 9-point mirror cell and Moonlite focuser. This telescope features the "easy transport" option. |
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| An upper tube assembly for Hao's 15" strut telescope with easy transport option and strings. |
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| A "complete" kit for Guy in Evergreen, Colorado. In this case, the kit includes optics, focuser, mirror cell -- the "Whole Kit and Caboodle"!! |
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| A 15" single-ring strut *L) for Hao and 14" strut for Nick with full UTA for Rick are underway. |
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| Mike, from Salinas, California, stopped to pick up his 16" F4.5 telescope. As always, it's great meeting customers from near and far. |
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| All set in Mike's car for the trip home. The "box" is the original shipping carton for the primary mirror. |
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| Mike's 16" Truss. The scope is set up for a star-test tonight |
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| That's a 16" F4.5 GSO on a 9-point mirror cell with custom mirror cover and primary dew shield. |
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| The spider is a 4-vane curved-vane by Destiny, a 3.5" secondary and Feathertouch focuser. Note the Telrad finder. |
Hi Dennis, At long last, the sky cleared up and I took the dob out to the club's dark site. The seeing was poor, so I didn't split any tight doubles, but I was nothing short of mesmerized by M42 and the double cluster... Pretty amazing to observe nebulosity in the Orion Nebula with the same clarity as the cirrus clouds I see from airplane windows! . . .
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| Ryan and his dad assembled one of our kits -- this one a 12" and "not without its challenges". But in the end, they did a great job. Super your guys!! |
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| Ryan is rightly proud of the work he and his dad did on this beauty. Note the wheel barrow handles, curved-vane spider and Moonlite focuser -- looks great. |
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| The UTA for Mike's telescope sports a Feathertouch focuser, 4-vane curved-vane spider, Telrad base and nice 3.5" secondary. |
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| The 16" mirror sits on a 9-point mirror cell and is "center" marked with a "donut" for ease in collimation. |
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| January 5, 2021 - With the truss system in place, it'll be a bit more on the OTA and then on to the rocker box. Needed, still, is a primary dew shield. |
