#Astrotelescope 152mm f5.9 refractor free
The Baader filter appears to be very well made indeed, nice solid build & mark free across the faces of the filter, not much else to say about it other than it weighs approx. I know it will suffer in the correction department but for visual use it should be awesome, AP wise I am looking forward to trying mono Ha images of a lot of targets, the main use will be for Solar which I am hoping should produce some amazing images. I have it on good authority that the cells used in these are the same as used in the 152mm Lunt solar scope, I am no expert on these matters but that would be good to know. It is an F5.9 & 760mm when dew shield is closed. It also uses a 7 outer diameter OTA, so the baffling is some of the most effective I have ever seen on a refractor. It is an f/9 (1370mm) ED lens design so with the dew shield in place it is quite long. The focuser is 3" in size which I really like as I have seen some images with a 2.5" used, the general appearance of the focuser is exactly the same as my Altair Astro 80mm APO with a fine adjuster of the same colour as well. The Meade 152ED is a physically big refractor.
I like to store all my scopes in cases where possible as I feel they need the best protection possible.Īnyway I thought I had better do a mini-review on the new additions, please remember I have not had a chance for a first light of scope or filter.įirst off if anyone if here is thinking of buying a 150mm + refractor these things are BIG !, I knew it would be quite a step up from the 80mm but even I was surprised at how much larger they are.Īs you can see in the images (lighter is for scale purposes) it is quite a lump, the scope is pretty front heavy as expected but not overly so. I will take this opportunity to thank Rupert for his patience towards my impatience, I had at one point expressed a concern over the fact that the scope didn't come with a hard case, this was an error but Rupert has indeed supplied a hard case that it can be stored in when not in use. I had to wait a while for the scopes to arrive with Rupert & the D-ERF filter from Baader is a special order item so this also had a fairly long lead time. Placed this order back in August with Rupert at Astrograph & it turned up end of last week.
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