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Welcome back!
My new telescope was delivered two days ago, so here are the first impressions.
It’s a Skywatcher 80ED refractor from the Evostar Pro series. This means it has an 80mm diameter, high quality objective lens, made from fluorite glass.
This special glass material is used to eliminate false color as much as possible from observations and keep them sharp. read on..
Well.. I was too hasty.
In my previous post here, I said the restoration of the Alan Telescope was nearly finished.
We had a meeting on Monday night and there is a problem with the Declination axis motor drive. read on..
Work continues at Cranbrook Astronomy Society, to restore the historic Alan Young telescope. read on..
