Sito di Vinicio Coletti - Astronomia
My telescopes - I miei telescopi
The supplied accessories were:- a very simple equatorial mount, with no polarscope and no RA motion, with wooden legs - a 6x30 finderscope - two eyepieces, H20 (45x) and H6 (150x) - a 2x Barlow lens During past years I added some extra items to this setup: - two more eyepieces, K25 (36x) and Or4 (225x) - an eyepiece projecton holder - a T-ring to Pentax K adapter, to attach my Pentax Me Super reflex to the eypiece projection holder - a 2x achromatic Barlow with T-ring attachment - the RA motion motor - I changed the 4 batteries holder of the motor with a 6V lead accumulator that nicely fits in the same bag and lasts many days - an adapter to use 31.8 mm eyepieces on the 24.5 mm focuser |
- the EQ3.2 mount, with polarscope, aluminum legs, possibility to add motors for both RA and declination - a 6x30 finderscope - two eypieces, PL25 (60x) and PL10 (150x) - a mirror diagonal I immediately added some useful items: - an adapter to use 24.5 mm eyepieces in the 31.8 mm focuser, useful for all Konus accessories for eyepiece projection, etc. - an LV 5 mm eyepiece (300x) - the motors for both RA and declination - in this case also I put a 6V lead accumulator in place of the four batteries holder of the motor 
 Simulating an observation session... |
I own two different telescopes. The first one was bought around 1988 at the time
of the former Mars opposition and is a Konus Vega, a Newton reflector. The primary
mirror has a diameter of 114 mm and a focal of 900 mm, thus the luminosity is f/7.9.
The focuser accepts 24.5 mm eyepieces only.
The second telescope was bought during 2003 and is a Skywatcher Mak127 with EQ3.2 mount.
It is a Maksutov-Cassegrain with a primary mirror of 127 mm and an overall focal of
1500 mm (f/11.8). The focuser accepts 31.8 mm eyepieces and has a T-Ring built-in, so
you do not need any accessory to do prime focus photos. Of course the EQ3.2 mount is much
better than the Konus one.Astro index
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