Spring in November. That's the actual weather in Belgium.
Very strange weather. Mosquitoes in November...
Result of this warm weather is a lot of dew and fogging. Not the best observation conditions.
A good dew controller is needed.
Equipment
The 160mm f:15 Gajdusek-Kozelsky refractor is installed in the observatory on the Fullerscopes MK IV equatorial mount. Tracking and GOTO is now possible. The Fullerscopes MK IV is a classic heavy duty mount retrofitted with stepper motors and an FS2 c
The 16cm f:15 Gajdusek Kozelsky refractor is installed on the Fullerscopes MK IV mount. This heavy duty mount from the 1950's carries the refractor very well.
Now it will be possible to observe more objects because the Fullerscopes has the GOTO function.
The equatorial mount will make it possible to use higher enlargements. It will also be possible to use the refractor for astrophotography
You want find much of them. This is SN001 of the 20" 50cm Ealing Beck. Normally Ealing made Cassegrains up to 40cm or 16". Specially for the University of Ghent Ealing made this 50cm. For some reasons the OTA was never installed on the mount.
The mount with the typical counterweight system.
The mirror cell with the baffle tube
Secondary mirror with the focusing motor.
Now the complete telescope is in our warehouse waiting for cleaning and installing new motors and controller. After this it
Handmade Star Diagonal Prism for the 16cm refractors.
The eyepiece size is 30mm and not the contemporary 31,5mm.
Works very well with Leitz microscope eyepieces.
Large 2inch star diagonal prism for the 16cm refractor.
Heavy piece bud fits perfect the refractor.
There is no indication of a brand on this piece.
Soms moet je het niet zo ver zoeken.
In een buurgemeente stond de telescoop van de vader van een vriend werkloos in een garage. Een prachtig historisch instrument.
Het is een 25cm Newton op een equatoriale montering gemaakt in 1924 door een Franse telescoopbouwer Maurice Manent. De hoofdspiegel heeft een diameter van 25cm met een brandpuntsverhouding van 5.5 en werd gemaakt door Zeiss, Jena. De telescoop en montering werden gemaakt uit onderdelen van Manents refractoren. De originel
