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November 10th 03, 09:05 AM
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Is Parks for real with this?
"Alan W. Craft" wrote in message ... http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Alan you're right, this has got to be a joke or trick photography! 
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November 10th 03, 12:16 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
Look at the shadow on the grounbd under the mount.... no big dark shadow from
an OTA Roland C in So. FL Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Alan you're right, this has got to be a joke or trick photography!
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#3
November 10th 03, 01:02 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Alan If the finder scope really is an 8x50mm, then the main telescope tube must be somewhere around 16 inches OD!? Maybe they could save some weight and bulk by using a smaller tube. :-) BTW, the larger refractor is a photo-guidescope, right? :-)
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#4
November 10th 03, 03:20 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
"W. Snell" wrote in message
om... Alan W. Craft wrote in message . .. http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! If the finder scope really is an 8x50mm, then the main telescope tube must be somewhere around 16 inches OD!? I did some comparisons using an image processor and it looks to me like they inadvertantly used the 12.5" OTA. The image of the 8" F4 that's on the more robust mount is a dead giveaway. Just look at the finder scope and guidescope. Probably not a joke, but a mistake.
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#5
November 10th 03, 06:05 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
The mount is just fine. It's even got a bit of spare capacity.
It's made from that new Tritanium Duobonic Aluminium Alloy. Dave  "Alan W. Craft" wrote in message ... http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Alan
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#6
November 10th 03, 08:12 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Not only that, but the main OTA seems to be a Scewt (SCT + Newt). Notice the 2 focusers and eyepieces, one at the front and one at the rear; it doesn't look like it has a Coude focus. 'Tis probably a gag.
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#7
November 10th 03, 08:54 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
It's a Cassegrain-Newtonian, just like the Wyeth reflector at Oak Ridge in
Harvard, MA, it has both focuses, by swapping the secondary. -- -Stephen Paul "Thad Floryan" wrote in message om... Alan W. Craft wrote in message . .. http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Not only that, but the main OTA seems to be a Scewt (SCT + Newt). Notice the 2 focusers and eyepieces, one at the front and one at the rear; it doesn't look like it has a Coude focus. 'Tis probably a gag.
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#8
November 10th 03, 09:01 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
You mean thats what you made Hypnodisk from then eh? (Robotwars BBC2 now
CH5.) Sean. "Dave Rose" wrote in message ... The mount is just fine. It's even got a bit of spare capacity. It's made from that new Tritanium Duobonic Aluminium Alloy. Dave "Alan W. Craft" wrote in message ... http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Alan
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#9
November 10th 03, 09:42 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
http://www.parksoptical.com/images/1_8f4HITastro.jpg Just don't even think about loosening the RA and DEC clamps! The mount looks a lot like those sold by Orion and the like, and that it's about ready to collapse! Alan Must be some sort of heavy metal in the counterweight. Maybe the UN should inspect it. Steve O.
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#10
November 10th 03, 10:56 PM
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Is Parks for real with this?
"Thad Floryan" wrote in message om... Not only that, but the main OTA seems to be a Scewt (SCT + Newt). Notice the 2 focusers and eyepieces, one at the front and one at the rear; it doesn't look like it has a Coude focus. Convertible Newtonian-Cassegrains have been around for a long time. That's what that telescope looks like.
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