635mm (25") aperture,
3175mm focal length (f/5)

This is one big scope!!  To give you an idea, Anthony's 6'2" tall...

There's not much left here that's Meade; the primary was refigured and refinished by NOVA Optics to 1/10th wave accuracy, the secondary is NOVA, too, the focuser is a JMI NGF2, and the 6x30 finder was replace by a Telrad...

The XT8 is a Dobsonian-mounted Newt.

Here's "Little A" on the Losmandy G-11 mount. All geared up for some solar observing

This is the Tak, a flourite-doublet apochromat, on it's Orion GP-DX mount with an Olympus OM-1 attached for prime-focus photography.