Lunt LS35T

How to enjoy the sun during winter time, when you the low rare sunlights occure when you are at work? The Lunt LS35 with a trumpet bag is the way to go!!!! For 35 euros this trumpet backpack includes:
- 3cm thick foam, doubled at the bottom,
-1 small bag for acessories, like a netbook,
-1 smaller bag with a separetion: ideal for 2 eyepieces
and other 1 zipped pockets for flat stuff...
and you are ready to observe the sun during lunch time!!! Or take it for mountain trecks and observe the sun at high altitude!!!
The LS35 is top for viewing proms and surface details, up to 2D=75x magnifications. The 10mm eyepiece included with the Deluxe version gives you 1D magnification, wich perfect to catch details and proms.

Vintage 80/1200 OTA

As a kid, how much time did I seen adds in astronomy mags for scopes like these, dreaming to use one.... so seeing one 30 years later at 40 euros was impossible to resist...

Old 150 F/8 newtonian OTA

This scope is a bit special for me, as it's may first homemade scope and that it has haunted my dreams during my Childhood... all stated with an encyclopedia at my great parents haouse: "Tout l'univers", aka All Universe. With many interesting thigs about history, geoggraphy, etc, there was a tutorial "How to make your own scope"!!!!!! I have grown up having a look insisde this 10 volumes encyclopedia. First as a small kid, only browsing the images and thinking, "Hey that looks cool, stars and a way to access them, gees!!". Then getting holder, after building some planes and boats with wood, I planned to get into action!!! The planes/boats convinced my parents that I could make it, so they bought the optics from Meade. However at 14teen, I took some books of math and physics to finalise the optical train and getmy first view of M42b like on picts. Here is the result, achieved in 1981, 30 years later, the optic is pristine!!! However the equatorial fork mount didn't survive....