For Sale: lots of Astronomical Equipment, another heritage of an active Amateur Astronomer (Belgium).

Sadly, another Belgian amateur-astronomer passed away a few months ago, and his heirs contacted us (Mira Public Observatory, Grimbergen) to find a new home for his -sometimes quite expensive- gear.

Please contact me by mail => “info” at “telescoopverhuur.be”.

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• Celestron C14 – 356mm f/11 Schmidt-Cassegrain, StarBright XLT – (with Parallax massive tube rings)

Last known value (new): 9.500 € ?

Value second hand: 4.500 € ?

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• APM 115mm f/7 triplet apo (TMB-design), # 260

Last known value (new): 5.000 € ?

Value second hand: 3.000 € ? (including tube-rings and sturdy metal box)

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• Teleskop-Service 150mm triplet ED APO f=1.000mm (f/6.7)

Last known value (new): 6.800 € ?

Value second hand: 4.000 € ?

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• 254mm f/9.8 Newton, optics by Iowa Scientific Optical

Long, longer, longest… This planetary Newton has such a long tube I needed 2 photo’s to get it on camera, while it stood in the attic (I didn’t bring my fish-eye-lens :-)).

The telescope comes with a NGF-2 focuser (from JMI).

Last known value (new): 900 €

Value second hand: 400 € ?

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• 20cm GSO dobson

A basic visual instrument… Comes with an extra “bearing plate” (for those who prefer bearings over teflon for azimuth-movement).

Last known value (new): 500 €

Value second hand: 250 € ?

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• 152mm Intes Alter M615 f2280mm sold!!

Last known value (new): 1500 €

Value second hand: 800 €

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• 203mm Intes Maksutov-Cassegrain f=1218 (f/6) SOLD!!

A rather unique instrument, mainly made for Astrophotography (and comes with an extra 0,8x reducer from TS if needed).

Last known value (new): 6.670 € ?

Value second hand: 4.000 € ?

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• 254mm Intes Micro Maksutov-Cassegrain, f=3810mm (f/15) SOLD!!

Last known value (new): 10.000 € ? (including heavy flightcase)

Value second hand: 6.000 € ?

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• TEC140FL, 140mm TEC triplet, f=980mm, #031, Feathertouch focuser SOLD!!

This is the FL-version, not the older ED-version! Oil-spaced triplet…

Comes with this beautiful Feather Touch FTF3545 focuser (worth > 1.400€), and finderscopes.

Last known value (new): 10.700 € (including heavy flightcase)

Value second hand: 7.500 € ?

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• Skywatcher 100mm ED Esprit Super Apo Triplet (f/5.5) Sold!!

Last known value (new): 2.200 € ?

Value second hand: 1.400 € ?

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• Televue 70mm Pronto (f/6.8) Sold!

These days we see a lot of compact high quality refractors coming out of China, but this famous Televue-instrument was probably the very first!

Comes in a nice padded bag, + Vixen-style dovetail and a finder-scope.

Last known value (new): 1.200 € ?

Value second hand: 500 € ?

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• 180mm Istar R30 (f=1440mm, so f/8) Sold!

Big, bigger, biggest… I think we all dream of owning a large refractor, so this might be an opportunity! Not a triplet nor an ED-objective, but these Istar-lenses seem to perform better as an “ordinary” doublet (“R30” stand for “30% less chromatic aberration compared to similar classical doublets”). Unfortunately Istar went out of business this year (the owner passed away), so this is your chance to grab one…

The scope comes with its tube-rings, finder scope, and has a very smooth Astrophysics-focuser (worth quite a few bucks on its own!!). The telescope was build by Ad Matthijs (AstroTechniek), after the owner acquired this Istar-lens.

Serial number: 130069

Last known value (new): 2.750 €

Value second hand: 1.200 € ?

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• 90mm Vixen f=1300mm SOLD!!

A classical very long refractor from the ’80s and ’90s (I own one myself, and for lunar and planetary observations they still outperform most modern refractors!).

Comes with tube-rings, diagonal and finder scope. Matches nicely with the Vixen Super Polaris DX or Great Polaris!

Last known value (new): 1.000 € ?

Value second hand: 300 € ?