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I was going to post a picture of my 80mm guide scope but then I remembered this baby:

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I've used it a couple of times recently for astro, Jupiter, Saturn conjunction, M45, because my binoculars are locked in the caravan and can't be retrieved due to lockdown.

Mainly it's used for checking garden birds after a heron appeared and to confirm the small critters in the neighbour's silver birch were chaffinches and not sparrows.

The objective is about 30mm and the focal length is about 300mm. In use it gives you an overwelming desire to talk like a pirate!

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John Fitzgerald wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:06 pm Image
That's a sweet looking scope John. I've always looked at that as a future purchase. Are you happy with it? Looks like a nice A.P. mount and dome too?
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My 70mm f/3.2 franken-copy-scope. It is made from a $10 surplus photocopies lens. The field flatness requirements for photocopying are quite different than for imaging the skies, so it has some nasty negative coma. Still, I have gotten some decent images of large targets like M31 with it.
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My Altair Starwave 80 ED, not getting enough clear skies at the moment.

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KathyNS wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:34 pm My 70mm f/3.2 franken-copy-scope. It is made from a $10 surplus photocopies lens. The field flatness requirements for photocopying are quite different than for imaging the skies, so it has some nasty negative coma. Still, I have gotten some decent images of large targets like M31 with it.

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Fun thread :D

I counted my refractors, and it seems I have 8 of them! How my other half hasn't kicked me out the door yet is a mystery...

However, I won't bore you with all my various Towa/Vixen made scopes; just this one. I bought this a number of years ago on Kijiji (local buy & sell) for $100.


It's a 1961 Tasco 12TE 60mm at f/11.4.
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Now you're wondering, OK Mark, how do you know for sure it's a 1961 model? Well, I'm not 100% sure, but I think the following photo's are fairly good proof. Take a look at the second photo; notice the "star" marked next to the finderscope?
My guess is this: Bought in late '61 as a Christmas present, unpacked, and since A) the family probably spent a good amount of money on this and B) shouldn't the finderscope produce the same image as the scope? The reason for the letter.

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Made in the days before Styrofoam packing was popular. The wooden case is mint, as is the straw and rice paper packing; even the rubber feet on the tripod legs.
Wood pieces for packing with green felt on the bottom that were screwed down with wingnuts. Almost 60 years old all this....

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There was even 3 of these in the box to be sure there was no mold/mildew forming... :lol:

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It also had a cardboard "hanger" from the Japanese Telescope Inspection Institute. This is both sides of that:

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The only other scope I have that has anything "inspected" by the JTII is my Celestron/Vixen orange C80, and that's just a sticker:

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And how does it do for views? I remember the first time I used it and looked at Saturn with the stock diagonal and 20mm .965 lens. What a Wow moment! I've since adapted it to take the 1.25 prism diagonal from my Vixen made orange tube C80, in which I use my KK Ortho's. You'd have to view through it to believe it. It's right up there with, again, my orange tube C80.

I don't have any APO or even ED refractors (as in nothing really worth posting), but I sure do love my achro's! :D

All the best,
Mark

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Stepping up in aperture - 40mm f/10.

Everybody has one of these, don't they?


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~87% illuminated Moon got its picture taken, too.
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Do you have any info about this scope?
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Thefatkitty wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:58 am Fun thread :D

I counted my refractors, and it seems I have 8 of them! How my other half hasn't kicked me out the door yet is a mystery...

However, I won't bore you with all my various Towa/Vixen made scopes; just this one. I bought this a number of years ago on Kijiji (local buy & sell) for $100.


It's a 1961 Tasco 12TE 60mm at f/11.4.
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Now you're wondering, OK Mark, how do you know for sure it's a 1961 model? Well, I'm not 100% sure, but I think the following photo's are fairly good proof. Take a look at the second photo; notice the "star" marked next to the finderscope?
My guess is this: Bought in late '61 as a Christmas present, unpacked, and since A) the family probably spent a good amount of money on this and B) shouldn't the finderscope produce the same image as the scope? The reason for the letter.


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Made in the days before Styrofoam packing was popular. The wooden case is mint, as is the straw and rice paper packing; even the rubber feet on the tripod legs.
Wood pieces for packing with green felt on the bottom that were screwed down with wingnuts. Almost 60 years old all this....


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There was even 3 of these in the box to be sure there was no mold/mildew forming... :lol:


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It also had a cardboard "hanger" from the Japanese Telescope Inspection Institute. This is both sides of that:


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The only other scope I have that has anything "inspected" by the JTII is my Celestron/Vixen orange C80, and that's just a sticker:


Image



And how does it do for views? I remember the first time I used it and looked at Saturn with the stock diagonal and 20mm .965 lens. What a Wow moment! I've since adapted it to take the 1.25 prism diagonal from my Vixen made orange tube C80, in which I use my KK Ortho's. You'd have to view through it to believe it. It's right up there with, again, my orange tube C80.

I don't have any APO or even ED refractors (as in nothing really worth posting), but I sure do love my achro's! :D

All the best,
It looks like a great buy! It seems a pity though that it looks like it has hardly seen any use, especially as you point out that it must have cost a bit, and was obviously initially unpacked when they noticed the finder-scope view. I wonder how many times since 1961 was it taken out under the sky?

Have you had a play with it? What are the optics like?

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Wollensak is the Surplus Shed brand. This is the f5.5 short version. 24 inches overall length and 14 pounds weight. Works as well as most short focus achromats.
Arizona- where the sky's are not cloudy all night.

Triple lensed fracs are so yummy when looking at planets.
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DeanD wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:49 am
It looks like a great buy! It seems a pity though that it looks like it has hardly seen any use, especially as you point out that it must have cost a bit, and was obviously initially unpacked when they noticed the finder-scope view. I wonder how many times since 1961 was it taken out under the sky?

Have you had a play with it? What are the optics like?

- Dean
Hi Dean, nice to hear from you.

The optics on this are really very good; it's a close second to my orange Vixen/Celestron C80 which is the best visual scope I have. The only reason it's second to that is because of the smaller aperture :D

I've taken it out over 30 times, and from the shape it was (and still is) in, I have to wonder as well how many times it was used by the original owners. Also, how did it end up going from the USA to Canada as well?

Things to ponder... :lol:

All the best,
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Too much Towa glass/mirrors.

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Ca-K - W/O 61mm, Antares 1.6 barlow, Baader 3.8 OD and Ca-K filters with a ZWO ASI174mm.
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Thefatkitty wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:54 am
DeanD wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:49 am
It looks like a great buy! It seems a pity though that it looks like it has hardly seen any use, especially as you point out that it must have cost a bit, and was obviously initially unpacked when they noticed the finder-scope view. I wonder how many times since 1961 was it taken out under the sky?

Have you had a play with it? What are the optics like?

- Dean
Hi Dean, nice to hear from you.

The optics on this are really very good; it's a close second to my orange Vixen/Celestron C80 which is the best visual scope I have. The only reason it's second to that is because of the smaller aperture :D

I've taken it out over 30 times, and from the shape it was (and still is) in, I have to wonder as well how many times it was used by the original owners. Also, how did it end up going from the USA to Canada as well?

Things to ponder... :lol:

All the best,
Sounds good!

I think our obsession with modern glass and fast APOs can lead us to think the older scopes aren't any good. I have a Pentax 50mm f12 (currently sans focuser) that has excellent optics: I have seen nice detail on Saturn and Jupiter at around 100x, which is the usually quoted benchmark for good optics (50x/inch of aperture).

I also have a 4" f18 lens cell from the 19th century (which my artist daughter has been using for a room-sized camera obscura). When I managed to mount this a few years back (before she stole it!) it gave my TSA102 a run for its money on high-power (200x) views of Saturn. (Actually a huge run, considering I only paid $5 for the lens cell!)
(As an aside, I find it fascinating that when it is used as a camera obscura it can illuminate a king-size white sheet at the focal plane, and if you bend the sheet appropriately to follow the focal plane you can get a sharp image over a 6' circle. When you think we only use the (say) 20mm circle in the centre of this for our telescope views it goes to show how important it is to have good baffling in the tube.)

Modern glass has much better coatings (my 4"f18 doesn't have any...) so better light throughput, but not necessarily any better figure and finish on the optics.

All the best,

Dean
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Borg 50EDii, 50mm f/10.

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Hello,

I'm new to the forum. I've posted in the introductions section but I thought that I would drop in here because I am a great fan of refractors.

I currently own 5 of them. This is the largest aperture - 130mm F/9.2. I'm very proud of it having owned it for the past 4 years:

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BFaucett wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:43 pm
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dagadget wrote: Sat Mar 27, 2021 5:53 pm Image


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Thank You

She works just as well as she looks. I bought another Mount for it but still waiting on the second counter weight. Very thick shaft on it like 28mm and I can't find any counter weights to use. Will post anopther photo of it on the Ioptron GEM 45 when I get all that I need.
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Home Made 8 inch Newtonian Reflector on Rocker Box AKA Scopezilla
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