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Below
are some pic of other scopes I have:

10" Meade LX200 Classic - This is the one that
is installed in the dome. It is sitting on a homemade pier
with a superwedge ontop. Currently it has a 120mm Orion Astroview
piggybacked.

13.1" Trusstube Dobsonian. Started life as a wonderful surprise
8th anniversary present from my wife in the form of a 13.1" Coultier
Odyssey. Several tube and mount rebuilds later and it has now
been in it's current form for probably 6 or 7 years. The tube is
a floor tom drum shell cut in half. The rods are fiberglass
chimney sweep rods mounted in ground lugs from electrical panels.
The focuser is homemade from angle aluminum and bearings.

This is a 6" F12 refractor that I bought the lense for
off EBay. The pic on the left shows me with just the optical tube
and the pic on the right shows it sitting on the temporary mount I
built. I wasn't sure if it was a decent lense or not so I stuck
it in this big PVC tube with a cheap focuser to test. So far it
seems to be pretty decent. I was going to build a nice
wooden tube out of redwood but have decided to a bit more modern and
layup a carbon fiber tube pretty soon.

Horrible picture of my PST Ha solar telescope sitting on a nasty green
lawn mower. It is mounted on a smal equitorial mount from Orion.

This is a 6" newtonian I built for my Niece. It
has a tube of cedar and a mount made of cedar and pine. I cut the
bearings in the shape of moons like some I had seen on the
internet. The lense cell cover on the back Has the constellation
Cygnus on it as that was the constellation that was directly overhead
at the time that my neice was born.

Meade ETX 125 UHTC with a piggy backed ETX 60 OTA. This was a
nice little scope but I really didn't use it that much. It wasn't
sturdy enough for public outreach events and, although it was fine for
normal use, I typically took my other larger scopes instead of this
one. I ended up selling this one a couple of years ago.

This is a little solar sunspotter folded projection scope that I use
for public outreach events. The cutey is the daughter of our good
friends.
  
These are our other scopes... Actually they are pics of the Lick
Refractor and reflector that we saw during a visit to the Lick
observatory. We actually got to view a little bit through the
refractor. The other pic is an arial shot that we took from our
helicopter while flying near the Lick observatory another day.
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