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Since we seem to be posting pictures of our scopes I thought I'd post one of mine.
I have 2 dobsonians both are driven, they are made in the USA by Starmaster. One is a 45cm F/4.3, the other is a 75cm F/4.0 Usually I will image with the 45cm scope as the seeing is very rarely good enough to use the big scope.
I am lucky enough to be blessed with fairly dark country skies, an average nights limiting magnitude is around 6.2 here so when the seeing is not good for planetary/lunar I can do very nice deep sky observing with the big scope. Views of M51 on a transparent night can be breathtaking, almost like a photograph.
My Wife and I own a 100 hectare horse riding stable near Ottawa Ontario, the only drawback to living here is the very harsh and long Canadian winter. Some winter nights are very clear but too cold for observing as the temperatures drop to as low as -30 C. I observe until about -15C after that it is not much fun anymore!!
I attached a picture of my 75cm scope inside my observatory. There are some older pictures of my observatory at this link but I no longer have the refractor it was sold to pay for the big scope.
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