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Last Updated:
January 05, 2009

 

Loaner Equipment

The Minnesota Astronomical Society (MAS) owns equipment it loans out to members in good standing.  MAS members may borrow a telescope for 30 days.  If there is no waiting list for the telescope, the loan may be extended an additional 30 days, with the approval of a member of the MAS Board.

Contact the current Vice President of the MAS for more information, or to reserve the telescope.

Equipment currently available includes:


10" Dobsonian Telescope

  • 8x50 finder scope and Telrad
  • 32mm, 25mm, 17mm and 9mm Plossl eyepieces
  • 2x Barlow lens
  • Moon filter and four colored planetary filters
  • Variable intensity red flashlight
  • Planisphere
  • Orion DeepMap 600 star chart
  • Messier card

 


6" SCT on Voyager alt/az mount

  • Celestron C6 Schmidt Cassegrain with 1.25” mirror diagonal
  • Dew shield
  • Astro Tech Voyager Alt-Az mount
  • 32mm, 25mm, 17mm and 10mm Plossl eyepieces
  • Moon filter, red dot finder and 6x30 finder scope
  • Variable intensity red flashlight
  • Planisphere
  • Messier charts and Mag 6 Star Atlas charts
  • Everything fits in one plastic tub and the padded carrying case

 

 

 


8" Dobsonian Telescopes (2)

  • 6x30 finder scope and Telrad
  • 32mm, 25mm, 17mm and 10mm Plossl eyepieces
  • Moon filter
  • Variable intensity red flashlight
  • Planisphere
  • Orion DeepMap 600 star chart
  • Messier card

 

 


6" Newtonian GEM
  • 6 Inch f/5 reflector on CG-5 type German Equatorial Mount 
  • Dual access drive equatorial mount w/ hand controller
  • 12.5 and 25 mm Plossl eyepieces,
  • 6x30 finderscope
  • Rigel QuikFinder
  • Planisphere
  • Messier charts
  • Mag 6 star charts
  • Instructions,
  • Padded carrying cases for mount and optical tube assembly
 
 

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