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2016 July The TS65APO-Q on the HEQ5

Starparty @ national parc "Hautes Fagnes" Sourbrodt May 2016

Starparty @ national parc "Hautes Fagnes" Sourbrodt May 2016

2015 June: Capella Starparty at the Marollen Chapel in Hoegaarden.

Moonrise at Meldert, July 2016

C11 on the NEQ6 ready for action in the garden. Summer 2015

2015 June: Capella Starparty at the Marollen Chapel in Hoegaarden with Jupiter and Venus above the TC6

June 2015 The TS65APO at Marollen Chapel

June 2015 Jupiter and Venus conjunction at Marollen Chapel

June 2015: something must be going on here! The Marollen Chapel in Hoegaarden

June 2015 C11 operating under the summer sky in Meldert - Hoegaarden

June 2015 C11 under a summer Sky

2015 May Banon, France The setup with the brand new Lacerta and the TS65APO-Q for automatic imaging under the Provence sky.

1994 January: mirror grinding class Leuven Ives

1994 Mirror Grinding Rene

1994 January: mirror grinding class Leuven

1991 Trois-Ponts Wega camp Observing the sun with the 200mm on the Dobson mount

1991 Spring 127mm F/6 refractor made with a Lichtenknecker lens AK and scrap parts

1990? Allons This is a 30cm Dobsonian I constructed for Jo (left) in 2 weeks time just to be ready for the Wega Observation camp in Allons, France

1989 The tube of the V200SR (Split-Ring) could be taken uit of the cradle and mounted in a Dobson box as seen on this picture. The tube itself was rotatable for a comfortable viewing position. This was an F/6 200mm Newtonian with Lichtenknecker Optics.

1988 V200SR (Visual 200mm Split Ring). This scope was made with simple hand tools from plywood and PVS piping. It was extremely comfortable in use, with a seated observation position, rotatable tube, teflon smooth push-to and a equatorial axis system which allowed pleasant usage in the zenit

1988 V200SR I believe my hair dresser was on strike at that particular time.

1988 V200SR The scope folded down in 4 parts: tube, split-ting (foldable), base and the lead counterweight.

1988 V200SR

1988 V200SR This was my workhorse which prooved to be very very efficient at visual observing. It was starhopping at lighting speeds from one object to another.

1988 Ronzon Wega camp I replaced the wooden tube with a PVC sewage pipe. The aluminum rings were hand-made. The old 60mm served as a auxiliary scope. Piet Hendriks made a steering for the DC motor. Unfortunately it rained almost the whole time....

1986 The old German mount with 1" axis proved to be too light for the heavy wooden-case 200mm Newton. This "new" self-made mount used solid 2" axis and very heavy tripod. Everything was welded together by my grand-father. The person on the picture is late Johann Falter.

1986: the 200mm Newton with Lichtenknecker optics, original wooden square tube and the second heavy mount with axes of 50mm and a heavy tube pier

The 200mm F/6 optics from Lichtenknecker were excellent. In the end I could see a lot of planetary detail, all Messier's and lots of NGC's, in the end also the quasar in Virgo and Pluto. It was too heavy on the small mount I made.

1982 North-Americanebula on Ilford-HP5, Praktica SLR manual guiding (like completely manual, no motors).

1982 Purchased a 60mm F/15 TASCO telescope with three eyepieces and a barlow + moon/sun filter and a sun projection set.