Messier 106 (Aptmarkus)

Messier 106

Well, I guess thats what you get when you invest some time into restoring an old Telescope. I am really getting to love doing these, in this case I bought a very old Vixen R200SS with some significant fungus on the mirror, to be honest I kind of expected it to be unfixable. The Telescope was part of an estate of a friend, stored in a humid Basement in a plastic bag for years, which definitely did not help. To my big surprise, most of the Mold cleared up with a classic cleaning using destilled water and some rubbing alcohol. The only damage still visible is at the very edges of the mirror, where the fungus managed to creep under the coating. However, I think this has very little Impact on the Images.

Anyways, after restoring the Mirror, I did some mechanical touchups, replaced the focuser and spent about an hour collimating the Telescope under the Stars. After that, I had a period of good weather and managed to do my first real long-term Project. In 5 nights of variing conditions, some impaired by sahara dust in the air, I managed a total of just over 24 hrs of usable data, all at BIN 2. I was very impressed with the collimation stability, when people say this is the Newton that does not need collimation, you can believe them. I have quickly grown to love this Telescope, and it will be my main imaging rig for the forseeable future. With this now beeing my fifth vintage telescope (Intes MK66 and MK69, Popp-Swiss Mak 190/3200, TAL-2 and this Vixen R200SS), I am going further down the rabbit hole of becoming a collector, but I just love giving these old beauties a second chance.

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