Mike Hanes poses with his Large Telescope Project. The scope is totally home made except for the 2 inch DAR focusser and the secondary mirror. Isn't it a beauty!
	John Appleyards 20 inch (50.8cm) f5 Obsession Dobsonian is the second largest scope in the club. He loves observing faint planetary nebula and distant galaxies. Yes, you really do need a ladder to reach the eyepiece when that big boy is aimed at the heavens!
	John and Bram Bontje are justifiably proud of their homemade 16 inch f5.3 Dobsonian Telescope. They built the entire thing, purchasing the focuser from DAR-Astro and the secondary mirror spider from Gary Wolanski. They ground the mirror themselves, and it was polished and figured by Dave McCarter.
	Steve Gauthier combined a 12.5 inch f5.7 Zerodur mirror, a Meade Research tube and German Equatorial mount for his main scope. He also has a Cerevolo Maksutov Newtonian for CCD imaging.
	Rick Saunders stands beside his new imaging setup. Behind all the cables are a Celestron CGE mount and a pair of Stellarvue refractors.
	Pete Raine proudly shows off his 10" dobsonian on a high stand. His woodworking skills paid off in spades when he built the beautifully finished mounting.
	Steve Imrie uses his 8 inch (20.3cm) f6 Dobsonian to view the sky.
	Dave Clark added a foam tube to his Celestron Super C8+ inch f10 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope to keep the optical corrector plate from dewing up. It works!
	Patrick Whelan started out with an 8 inch f6 Coulter Dobsonian, but now uses his Sky Watcher 100mm Refractor more often.
	Jon Gunning uses this impressive array of Astro Physics Refractors to do CCD astroimaging. There are a total of six refractors on that stack, including the polar finder scope. There must be a law about this somewhere! We also hear rumours about a 40cm Ritchey-Chretien telescope in the trial phase.
	Neil Whyte uses this 8 inch f10 fork mounted Meade as his travel scope. The observing chair in the background is made by Glen Spooner.
	Dave Rubenhagen built the polar mount, clock drive and camera adapter that holds this remarkable and large zoom lens, which he purchased surplus. It produces excellent colour images of the starry sky. Dave also makes the worlds best dual rate helical focusers, superb mirror mounts, and other astro goodies.
	Faye Bontji holds the controls of this home made Binocular mount, designed to allow steady and unrestricted viewing of the heavens.
	Dylan Clark uses the view of the moon through a Tasco 4.5 inch Newtonian telescope mounted on a german Equatorial mount to impress a young lady.
	Harold Tutt has a look through Kelly Sibthorpe's new short tube Russian refractor while Kelly looks on.
	Gary Irwin has a look through one of the many telescopes that Joe O'Neil regularly brings in for sale.
	Dave McCarter explains some of the finer points of polishing glass to Neil Whyte while the machine does almost all the work on John Bontji's 16 inch mirror, that black dirty looking thing under the polishing tool to the lower right.
	Chris Flemming poses by his 12.5 inch Stellar Dobsonian for Bob Duff's camera. In the foreground is John Bontji's 8 inch f6 homemade dobsonian, which Faye Bontji used to view over 30 Messier Objects during Starfest. In the background is John Appleyard's 20 inch Obsession, and beyond that the tents and scopes in the fields of Starfest.
	John Rousom and his Celestron SCT show a young Beaver how a telescope brings far away things much closer.
	Bill Gardner does wonderful astrophotography with this ten inch SCT on Astro Physics 900 mount.
	Dave McCarter finally finished his totally homebrew 300mm f8 scope.
	Mark McCallum celebrates in his backyard with his new refractor, after independantly discovering that the purchase of a new telescope incurs the wrath of the cloud gods for several weeks at least!
	Miroslav Komorous waits for dark to fall so he can continue to make variable star magnitude estimates with this large refractor.
	Peter Jedicke proudly displays his new 40cm Dobsonian. Mike Haines did the build complete with a DARAstro cell, Moonlight focuser and Celestron Advanced Astro Master encoders.
	Bob Duff at the Cronyn Observatory with his Meade Starfinder 8 (20.3cm, f/6) Newtonian telescope on its Dobsonian mount.

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