Burglarized...

[Jon Ruyle]

Last new moon weekend, I invited some friends for some new moon telescoping and astrophotography at my cabin in twentynine palms CA, and I arrived to find that it had been burglarized. The place was totally cleaned out. The bastards got, from my "secure garage":

AP Mach 1 GTO mount with Losmandy tripod and mount accessories
Takahashi FS102
9.25" Edge HD
2 Short tube 80 refractors with mounting rings. One had a Starshoot autoguider attached.

There was also 25" Obsession in the garage (these are $12,500 new, mine has upgrades), but they didn't take it!

I don't have much hope of recovering any of that stuff, but thought I'd mention it since I suppose there is a chance it will turn up somewhere. Even though they got mostly telescope stuff and not photography stuff, I thought I'd mention it on this site because a lot of the people here are familiar with the equipment. So if you see a shadowy character pushing a suspicious mach 1 mount, please let me know...