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Below are some pic of other scopes I have:

LX200a  LX200b
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.


Trussdob  Dob2
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.  

Refractor  Refractor2
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.

PST
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.


Ariels Scope  Ariels Scope2
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.


ETX125
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.

Sunspotter
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.


Lick RefractorLick ReflectorLick Observatory
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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