New quark f/15

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New quark f/15

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Apparently a new toy for NEAF!!!!

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Re: New quark f/15

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Hi Vincent

thank you very much. I wonder what is inside the new Quark


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Re: New quark f/15

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in fact, it's strange....

look at those pictures :
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and here :
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compare to the standard one :
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Seems that remove only the black body...Do we know what's inside?
Look that picture from company seven :
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Daystar should know better than to show us pictures of the insides ;)


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Re: New quark f/15

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Thanks for the heads up...


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Re: New quark f/15

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Is it possible that the "missing black part" is the telecentric barlow?

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The Questar scope is a slow F15. The normal Quarks should be used at F4 - F8 telescopes. This would be a F17,2-F34 in combination with the quark-filter.

A Quark without the barlow (or a smaller one) would be a very nice way to doubelstack every other solarscope! :D


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Re: New quark f/15

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This seems to be a great development!

I tried my Questar with a SM60 front etalon and BF15 many years ago, and the front-loaded weight and configuration of the diagonal BF with a counterweight were a pain, and the results mediocre.

Here it is shown with a temporary adapter (ala MacGyver :mrgreen: ) until the real one arrived:
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Should hopefully work well and be a welcome choice for this very portable instrument, and of course the mod-heads lurking about!


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Re: New quark f/15

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Hi Vincent

isn't that a 1. april joke ;)


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Re: New quark f/15

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swisswalter wrote:Hi Vincent

isn't that a 1. april joke ;)
I think it is. Can´t find anything about it.

And if you look at the Picture, I think they just molested a damaged/returned Quark. (broken barrel)


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Re: New quark f/15

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It is not!

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http://www.icstars.com/Store/daystar/qu ... ilter.html

but who knows this web page : www.icstars.com ???


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Re: New quark f/15

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Doesn't the Q3.5 have a 2X barlow built into the eyepiece holder. So you can flip it in and out?
I used the Q3.5 with an SO-1 on the camera port. I also stopped it down to 60mm with an ERF. I worked find.
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