Malcolm Flain’s Telescopes

As most of you will be aware, long time member and friend Malcolm Flain passed away last month. His cheerful enthusiasm for life and its many curiosities will be greatly missed. He was always happy to share stories and show photos of his many telescopes. Many of us will have had the chance to see, or to look through some of his well make instruments. Many of these are quite unique and are a tribute to Malcolms eye, skill and curiosity.

His daughter, Cath, is in the process of sorting out his estate. Malcolm had a great deal of stuff, and most of it will be going to auction in a few weeks. I’ll post details here closer to the date. There will be an opportunity to view the many items at the auction house before the auction.

While most of the smaller items including binoculars and camera gear is already packed in a container for transport to the auction, the telescopes are still at Malcom’s place, and we are hoping that they can be sold and picked up before the auction.

Below is a catalogue of the remaining items:

Any reasonable offers. We want it gone to a good home 🙂 Get in quick!

 

Large Telescopes:

16″ dob, on wheels with telrad. (SOLD)

10″ f/8 ? (long) dob on wheels. Large finder. Detachable upper tube for transport.

8″ f/8 ? on English equatorial mount with worm gear on RA (no motor). (SOLD)

9″ f/4 aerial photography lens mounted on tripod in Alt-Az mount and 2″ focuser – as seen at Staverley 2021.

180mm f/15 Skywatcher Mak on EQ6 pro mount and pier, on casters. Wifi adaptor. 1.25″ focuser. 50mm finder.

 

5″ – 6″ Refractors, Newtonians & mount:

Two 6″ f/10? Refractors, 2″ focusers. Not identical? Unmounted, but would fit on 6″ rings on Carton mount (below)

6″ f/5 Newtonian, 1.25″ focuser. Unmounted, but would fit on 6″ rings on Carton mount (below)

145mm f/6.3 Wray lens (cracked) mounted in tube with 2″ focuser and 30mm superview EP on heavy old EQ5? style mount. (SOLD)

5″ f/5 achromat refractor, home made tube, 35mm 2″ EP (3 deg FOV), EQ1 mount

120mm f/5 Skywatcher refractor on EQ3 mount (SOLD)

Heavy duty Carton equitorial mount (blue) with (very) basic motor drive. Rings for 6″ scopes.

 

Smaller refractors

80mm f/5 “Cometron” short refractor on camera tripod. 25mm Celestron Kellner EP. Laser finder (SOLD)

Pentax refractor 60mm x 900mm on AZ mount with dual slow motions. 0.96″ focuser.

Short refractor 60mm f/6 ? modified. 1.25″ diagonal, no EP or finder. on EQ2, no drive.

60×700 and 60×900 (Unitron) refractors 0.96″ focuser – OTA only.

Kathmandu spotting scope 15x-45x zoom, on solid camera tripod.

 

Smaller Newtonians

Edmund Scientific “Astroscan” 105mm f/4.2, 28mm Edmund eyepiece.

114mm x 500mm f/4.4 Newtonian on EQ1 with basic motor drive. 26mm EP. Ball mount on side for camera. includes Fuji Finepix S5600 camera (2005, 5 MP, USB, XD card (missing), AA batteries) 6.3-63mm zoom (10x, 5-50 degrees wide). f/3.2-f/8.

114mm x 1000mm short tube Bird-Jones Newtonian – OTA only.

Sport Master 100mm x 900mm Newtonian. OTA + large finder. 0.96″ focuser. No mount.

 

Binocular telescopes:

Hand held binoculars are packed and will be in the auction.

Binocular 40mm Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescopes (yes two of them) on basic motorised AZ mount, twin 8-24mm zoom eyepieces

Right angle binoculars on basic motorised Alt-Az mount with laser pointer.

Single 9×50 binocular lens (monocular now!) with right angle mirror on ball mount on polar aligned 24 hour clock mechanism (tracking).

 

Mirror & Lens :

10″ f/7.1 mirror, H Wildey, Broardhurst & Clarkson, London 1954.

Large 8″ single element lens (f/6?). Not a telescope objective – very high chromatic abberation.

 

Other:

EQ1 mount on solid Bosch tripod – could be adapted to small Newtonian or refractor.

Various camera tripods (some fairly heavy) and camera eyepice adaptors.

 

Photos to follow…..

 

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Marc Bunyan.