MAURITS and his "VISTA del Ciel0" Observatory

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MAURITS and his "VISTA del Ciel0" Observatory

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Although built a few-years ago, I have just been looking at Maurits's website at http://www.vistadelcielo.be/ and very interested in his design and production of his observatory.

Certainly his ideas were certainly similar to mine and interesting though to see a very different shape of his observatory from mine.

Also the various pages to more of his website are well-worth visiting too.

Amazing how enthused are the school-children to the outreach to the schools for astronomy, which I have also found in the past...

Well done Maurits on your efforts. Great results...

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Super! I'd love to one day have drawers with all my stuff organised in it and an observatory to go with it :)

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Cool website Maurits!


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love it - such care and attention for ones equipment - I never know sometimes where I last left stuff just when I need 🤔


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Alexandra, Mark and David, exactly as I thought too. Quite remarkable designs and storage as well as his website...

Thanks Maurits from Terry


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Maurits, you have an incredible observatory. The TOA150 is actually a " dream scope " of mine. My favorite Takahashi. I probably will end up getting an FS60 in time.


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Post by Carbon60 »

Extremely well engineered, Maurits. Very interesting to see the build in such detail.

Terry, thanks for sharing this with us.

Stu.


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