What did Santa bring you?

[AstroTasmania]

Santa arrived a couple of days before Xmas, weighed down with a large box, on which there was a Red Swan logo, getting a hint? What was inside you ask?
OK, to put you out of your misery, a large aluminium case containing one of the new Megrez 90mm f/6.9 APO scopes, complete with the new 2" Dielectric diagonals with carbon fibre side plates, a 10:1 fine focuser as standard, also a photo adaptor tubeall ready to attach one of my DSLR's.

The BEST gift is the heavy rain and snow which has dampened down the bush fires, just in time for the fire fighters to have Xmas at home. It must be the new scope that brought the change in weather.

So, any nice astro goodies for Xmas?

[Radar]

Hi Shev,

I got no astro goodies for Christmas. But I got lots of useless stuff that I can sell on ebay and then purcahse astro gear. :Chessy_Smile:

Love the sound of that new scope mate. What is the largest aperture scope you have there?

[AstroTasmania]

My largest scope at present is a homebuilt fork mounted 12" f/5 Newtonian with some interesting features. AT 5000 RA & Dec controller. This will be replaced with a homebuilt 16" f/4.5 fork mounted Newtonian. Next is a Meade SN-10", followed by a Tak Mewlon 210, f/11.5, Tak Epsilon 180ED f2.8 Astrograph. Refractors: Synta 6", 4" f/10, 4" f/5, WO Megrez 80ED, WO 66 Petzval, 80m finder, 80mm f/15. The WO 90 APO is the latest addition.

Imaging: DSLR's x3, Video- solar system & deep sky (too many), Web cam's x3 Cooled CCD x2, DSI Colour, DSI II, DSI Pro II. SE STAR 2000, SE Adaptive Optics with CCD Guide Camera.

Film, Nikon's x 3 35mm, Pentax (too many) Best is a Pentax 6 x7 medium format with 7 lenses 180 degree fisheye to a 300mm.

Some Accessories: Baader Solar Coronograph Mark IV, Baader Solar Herschel Wedge, Andy Homyer 6 filter wheel, Coronado 40mm SolarMax unit, Coronado PST, Lumicon H-alpha 1.5 A unit, Argo Navis computer system. 90 x 25 binoculars.

Mounts as well as homebuilt gear Meade LXD-55, EQ6 SynScan, Anssen Technologies Alhena GEM with German FS2 controller.

This lot has taken about 40 years to collect, the later stuff is my children's inheritance!!

[rocketman]

Last year, santa sent us a 19 1/2 pound (8.8 kg) Campo del Cielo meteorite, the centrepiece of the collection.It looks great at work, get much more enjoyment from my "not of this world" "rock" as the wife calls it than any booze, tobacco etc.Hope santa sent everyone else good stuff.

rocketman

[CanisMajorTom]

That is a huge collection of astro gear Shevill. :thumbsupmate:

Meteorite sounds like a cool gift idea to R.M.