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