Jul 21, 2013  Hi, can anyone advise us please. We are first time users and the scope we bought has no manual. We have set it up but not sure if we have done it correctly. Is the picture supposed to be upside down or is there something we should do to change it? Really sorry if this is a silly question, but we. Telescope - Bushmaster. Bushmaster Jupiter f700 telescope Comes with assorted lenses Used once Cost $120 new. Bushmaster Jupiter F700. How to Use a Bushnell Voyager Telescope By Contributing Writer. Components include the. I googled the Bushmaster Jupiter F700 telescope and found the Australian home page for. I know you got a.

My first telescope I made myself in the 70s. I spent all the money I earned working during the summer school holidays on a Carl Zeiss Jena 540/50 achromatic cell, two eyepieces and accessories, and put it all together using a tube rolled from paper and a mount made from plywood.It definitely got me hooked, despite its limitations, at least for a while. I was later drawn towards other hobbies but returned to visual astronomy in the late 90s, when I bought a 6' Mak. I've added a Dob and an 80ED since, but the Mak is still my favourite.CheersSteffen. My first telescope was a Tasco 4.5' reflector on a EQ1 equatorial mount, which I was given as a christmas present when I was 12 years old. Ignited a real passion for astronomy that I have had ever since.

With that scope (as a young teenager) I learned about telescope optics, polar alignment, and had lots of fun star hopping around the southern stars, with a copy of Ian Ridpath's 'Guide to the Stars and Planets' in hand. I even considered astronomy as a career for a while, until I was told that there were limited job opportunities in Australia. Ended up studying engineering at university instead but continued to maintain an interest in astronomy.I actually kept that scope until I was 32, when my wife and I moved from metropolitan Adelaide to country NSW. We gave the scope away before we moved, and then a few months later I purchased an 8' dobsonian.

WOW - what a difference a large modern scope made, with views I could have only dreamed of a kid.At the beginning of last year I took the plunge and bought an 8' f4 imaging scope and a EQ6. 12 months later I upgraded again to a Vixen VC200L with Robofocus.

Suddenly what was a hobby became a full-blown obsession!!Apart from that first scope (the tasco) which I gave away, I still have all the others, and really enjoy getting them all out when we have family and friends visiting. It's a real thrill to be able to share the wonders of the night sky with others. For example, a friend recently saw the rings of Saturn for the first time 'I can't believe this is real' he said 'I can actually see Saturn, that is so amazing'. He was glued to the eyepiece for the rest of the evening.:thumbsup. Mine was a Meade 125EX 2 and a half years ago as a birthday present. I thought I was getting a lawnmower, there where that many boxes.

I really had no idea it was a scope but apparently Carolyn decided it was a must after we visited Parkes earlier that year.After a couple of issues and some research I changed for an ED100 and a HEQ5, built an R.O.R and got thoroughly sucked into imaging and am now on the upgrade path after recently getting a new mount and picking up a beautiful Tak FS 60 at the end of last year. Trying to hold off on the next scope until I really understand what I want to focus on.What really attracts me to this hobby though is that I am learning so much about cosmology, astro physics, astronomy, image capture and processing, its absolutley fascinating stuff and my library is continually expanding.:).

Tasco 50mm refractor. It used the old 0.96' eyepieces. I got just in time for Comet Halley - and then continued to use it until 1995 when I got my 10' dob as a 21st present.:)I should add though, that I had an older brother with a 4' SCT who went on to be a professional astronomer and I was a member of the BAA (astro society in Sydney) from about age 12. We used to catch the train together into meetings at Sydney Observatory.The 10' dob worked a treat, especially when I lived in Wagga and when I visited Narrabri. I got to know the sky pretty well and spent lots of time going over various atlases and NGC 2000 planning my observing nights.I was overseas in Zambia for 2005-2010. In 2009 I got a cheap 80mm while holidaying in the UK (visiting my brother!) to take back to Zambia to enjoy the dark skies (I lived in a remote village near the Angolan border - best skies!!).

Twice the region lost electricity for 6 weeks straight. Absolute astro bliss!!In 2011 I got a CGEM 9.25' and in 2012 a 16' GSO dob and an 80mm APO refractor.I would consider myself a fairly experienced observer, but a newbie imager (since I only took up imaging in 2011). My first scope was a 60mm Tasco refractor with a straight through zoom eyepiece-my then wife and kids gave it to me for my birthday back in 1986, I think. It was totally useless for astronomy, but I managed to find Saturn with it.Wetted my appetite, so I got a Meade 2120LX3 and used it for a couple of years-while I had it, I also got a Meade 80mm refractor on a G.E mount-I loved the sharp, contrasty images so much, I have only owned refractors since.2 Astro-Physics Starfires, Televue Pronto, Televue 102mm and several lesser refractors until my current Stellarvue 90mm Raptor.I've been on the waiting list for 5 years for another Starfire, but reckon I will die long before my turn comes up!:). My first telescope when I was 14 in 1971, was a 8' Newtonian kit from Astro-optical supplies. I got the tube made locally and had to drill the holes for the mirror mounts and rack and pinion focuser.Now don't laugh; as at first I mounted the 8' mirror in its cell with the aluminized surface underneath resting on the cell. As all the mirrors I had seen had their reflective surfaces on the back and not on the front.

After a phone call to Astro Optical as I could not get focus; they informed that, that was a first. My first telescope didn't come into my life for many many years after my interest in astronomy was ignited. When I was twelve I spent a night at the Perth Observatory, with the then director Dr Ivan Nikolov, which ignited a life long interest in astronomy. Being from a very humble (read poor) background a telescope was beyond attainable. Although, an old astronomer friend did give me a pair of binoculars which I used for years until stolen.My first scope was obtained in my twenties and was an 8' Newtonian on an equatorial mount. As a fitter and machinist, I completely rebuild the telescope mount and tube assembly, including adding a fine focus control, and that was in the early 80's, well before they became popular; it was made out of a tiny planetary gearbox mechanism.

I had that scope for quite some time before the missus made me sell it, to finance some furniture for our new house. LOL Lester,: )I looked through a primaryschool mates fathers 60mm tasco in 1974 at Saturn and rings and hounded the olds for one til I got a 50mm version for xmas, only knew of main planets to view?

My first scope was a 60mm Tasco refractor on an alt az table top tripod when I was 7 I think. Pretty wobbly but I didn't know much better. I enjoyed the views of the moon, but that was about it for astronomy. I mainly used it to look at birds, animals, etc.At about 15 a mate of mine was into astronomy, and just knew what was where and when in the sky. It left me wondering 'How does he know this?'

And eventually I started buying astro magazines to try to learn about it. For a long while I used my brother's 20x80 Bushnell spotting scope until he wanted it back. I used to like viewing the moon and chasing Messier Objects and other fuzzies.At about 21 I lashed out on a pair of Pentax 7x50 binoculars which I still have.:thumbsup: A few years later I bought an 8' f/6 Newt on a Samson equatorial mount with motor drive and drive corrector on RA. I bought it second hand from an old fellow in St Ives who made the scope himself. This was back in the 80's when most newts were about f/10 and occasionally an f/8.

The optics were superb. I sold that after about 5 years or so as it wasn't being used - I was in trouble for spending too much time in the back yard with the scope.:rolleyes:After a break of nearly 20 years (and after retiring from rescue, so I was looking for something to do;)) I decided to get back into astronomy and bought a C8 on a CG5 mount. A C8 was my dream scope 20 years earlier when I had the 8' newt.Next I bought a PST and the solar bug got me. I bought a pair of 20x80 binoculars which I still have as well.

Then I moved out of town and built the obs. After a year or 2 with the C8 in the obs, I bought an EQ6 and mounted a C11 and an ED80 on it side by side.

About the same time I got interested in spectroscopy and got a staranalyser.Then I sold the C8 and the PST since I found the SM40 etalon on the ED80 performed better for solar work. An then I built my L200 spectrograph for the C11. I also bought a second hand 16' lightbridge for visual work. 'the visitor's scope';):).I got my L200 just about ready to go when my job changed.

I now have a much more challenging and satisfying job, and to be honest I just don't feel inclined to spend a lot of my home time doing the technical stuff like sorting out and running the observatory to do spectroscopy. But I just can't bring myself to let go of it yet.:) So for now I entertain myself with solar imaging - now with a Lunt LS60F etalon on the ED80 - and other less technical pursuits at home, but I want to get back into spectroscopy at some stage.Al. My first scope was an Ascotron 60mm Alt/Az refractor. It was purchased from Astro-Optical Supplies at Crow's Nest. I re-call that it cost $49, quite a sum corrected to today's dollars.

My interest in astronomy went back a long time before the scope arrived and I remember looking longingly at Tasco scopes in brochures and shop windows for years before the Ascotron finally arrived for Christmas in 1968.I was fascinated with the views of the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, double stars and sun-spots (thankfully by projection and not through the supplied dark glass eye-piece filter), great memories. Clearly a small scope could provide heaps of enjoyment for those who already had a real in interest in astronomy.I went on to buy a Celestron SP-C8 from the same company in 1986 and have been adding scopes and accessories ever since.Regards,David. I received a 60mm Tasco refractor as a christmas gift. Even though I was only 10, I remember waking up at something like 3am to view the waning gibbous moon from the sliding door to my backyard. And remember seeing a myriad of craters and mountains. Also had my first view of Saturn through that scope. It was tiny, and a uniform yellowish hue.

But it had rings!I also recall setting up the scope on my parent's kitchen table early in the morning while every one was asleep to catch a glimpse of Jupiter rising over the neighbour's rooftop. Was very excited to see 2 brown lines across it and dots to either side!;)One of my fondest memories was of my dad aiming the scope on Venus and exclaiming in excitement that he can see the surface and craters and everything. Little did he know that it was way out of focus.

Ofcourse, now we know better!Unfortunately, the fun was short lived as one of the screws holding the tube to the mount, and the threads for the set screws in the plastic focuser and diagonal became stripped in very, very short order. I remember my parents sending the scope back.waiting something like 2 months for the tube to be returned, and another few weeks for the eyepieces and diagonal.

My first telescope, made in 1951, consisted of a nondiscript spectacle lens with a focal length of about 18' (45cm) carefully attached to one end of a 2' cardboard tube.At the other end of the tube I built up a sliding tube from cardboard rolled around a lens focal length about 10mm extracted from the view finder of a damaged box brownie.With this I managed to see the moons of Jupiter. I later added an intermediate lens (main lens from the box brownie) that erected the view so I could use the telescope for normal local viewing. I lost interest after a few days and had no interest in the sky or telescopes until 1990 when I bought a 11TR tasco from the Binocular and telescope shop in Hunter Arcade. With an extra 40mm eyepiece and AC drive I spent $950.At the time I had a budget that would have got me an 8' Celestron SCT if Mike had worked on me!Barry. Our first telescope is a Celestron AstroMaster 130 we bought on a whim from an Australian Geo shop. Have never got the best use out of it: the spotter scope is a red dot in a tube and it just doesn't work for me- can't focus on the dot and a star at the same time, so it's hit and miss for finding anything smaller that the moon!

Got a Barlow for it but cannot focus the camera with or without. I guess it's a pretty ordinary scope but we should be able to have more fun than we are having.

By the time I've found Saturn everyone has gone to bed! I need guidance! Any advice or help would be appreciated. My first scope was inspired by a 'rich' 14 year old (Los Angeles) friend's Questar. I saved for a long time and bought an 80mm f15 Mayflower refractor on an EQ mount in the mid 60s. The mount was terrible but the lens in the Mayflower was (is!!) terrific. I still have the scope and I always though the views were every bit as good or better than the Questars.

Such began my passion for refractors. Whilst in high school I 'built' a 5' f15 refractor from a Jaeger lens and put it on a massive Cave Optics 'Astrola' mounting. That lens is also quite good and both the scope and mount have followed me around the world from the USA to Australia.

After several rebuilds and attempts at upgrades I finally gave in to an unstoppable urge to buy a TEC140 and PMX mount. Sadly the old toys have see little light since that fateful day.Peter. First telescope 1969 – Newtonian:6” mirror, 4 vane spider, diagonal, helical focuser & 3 x 1¼” eyepieces - all bought from an astro shopSquare section tube made from outgrown playpen struts & plywoodMirror cell made from steel hoop mounted on plywood baseEquatorial head made up from galvanised piping – packed sand used as counterweightStand – 4 vertical wooden struts attached to Tee-section base.First view: Quarter phase Moon. One glance and hooked forever.Turned out that the mirror quality was first class and the eyepieces not half bad.

Location 2 deg. South of equator. Spent many happy hours getting to know both Northern and Southern Hemisphere skies. Will be the scope that I remember when passing St Peter's gate. I have a few parallels with other responders.

Growing up in Glasgow, the local firm Charles Frank Ltd was the obvious source of optical delight. I pored over their catalogue as a tiddler for (probably) months, before I was treated to a 40mm/30x Janik refractor on a table-top mount; this was around 1972, I guess.

With that little scope, I 'discovered' Saturn, with the tube poking through the skylight; not the best way to observe, but it worked up to a point. I also tracked the movement of Uranus for a few months in 1973 (near Spica, IIRC). I certainly wasn't put off by its small size, and still have that scope today (minus the mount).Having proved my interest, it was followed by a typical 60mm with all the bits - wooden tripod, couple of eyepieces, Barlow, image erector, solar filter.

I both liked and disliked this scope. I liked the extra magnification, slow motion controls, etc, but the mechanical quality of the mount left something to be desired. Still, it did me for another couple of years, I guess, until Dear Old Dad bought one of Charles Frank's own models at auction - a 6-inch reflector on a driven German mount.

I have no idea where the 60mm went, but I still have the 6-inch to this day. The drive is kaputt and the whole thing is antiquated (1¼-inch RAS-threaded eyepieces); the Newtonian flat went missing in the move Down Under, so I replaced it 'temporarily' with a piece of front-silvered mirror from an old photocopier. At least 10 years ago.Since then I've acquired a Russian Tal-Alkor (65mm Newtonian - brilliant optical quality; diffraction-limited, I'd say) and a junkshop find - the tube from a cheap refractor; I removed the broken rack & pinion focuser and wedged a surplus eyepiece in place to give me about 15x with a 65mm f/10-ish objective.

With a ¼-inch BSW nut epoxied into the original mount bracket, it now goes on my photographic tripod for a quick look at the Moon and other large objects (not my bank balance).So, not put off at all; I was led into a photographic career at the UK Schmidt Telescope Unit and more recently as a presenter at the Brisbane Planetarium. All from a 40mm refractor:). The first decent telescope I owned was a Unitron 60mm model 128 that my father picked up for around 225 USD (4 weeks wages) back in 1968. In the early 70s I added a 70mm Amasco from Astro-Optical Supplies in Crows Nest. In 1972 I got a Royal 4.5' EQ Newtonian from Japan and by 1973 I was building my own 8' Newtonian which was mounted on a Fullerscopes MK-III mount and then on a Sampson mount.

Both mounts are now long gone but the primary mirror is still in use today.Since then I've built at least a couple of dozen telescopes and perhaps owned 30 more. My most prized though as a 1.5' short Naval Refractor that my grandfather first showed me the moon and M31 one with in the early 60s. That scope predates 1770. My first childhood 'telescope' was cobbled together with available lenses and it was enough to view the Moon. But this endeavour arose from reading my grandfather's 1920s coffee-table book on the heavens. This spasmodic activity of assembling lenses into telescopes continued into my 20s (always with bad achromatic aberration) until one lunchtime a couple of us in the lab assembled a scope using a good 80mm objective with a microscope eyepiece. This scope was quite popular (except with the guy who used the microscope) and I spent many nights discovering that there was a lot that could be seen.

But of course a long tube on a camera tripod is pretty hard to point anywhere specifically, so this became more frustrating than productive. In those times telescopes were quite expensive so with a growing family and intensive career my astro curiosity remained just that, until approaching retirement I found that I would have time and could afford a scope, so bought a Meade 8' LX50. This had insufficient room for cameras to clear the base when pointing at the pole and I upgraded to a 10' Meade SCT optical tube on a G-11 + Gemini. This is now housed in my observatory. Meeting an active astronomer would have got me going much earlier, so this is my message: always take time to show people what there is up there. Mostly they have no idea and there is a lot of reward for giving up a night of 'serious' work.

A 6' f/8 mirror which I ground and polished, then assembled in an old-school Newtonian OTA circa 1969. Then made a 4.25' f/3 ( that was a sweet RFT, in a handheld shoebox-sized tube you could hold under one arm) and an 8' f/6.7, then a 6' f/18 folded Newtonian which had an f/5 primary and convex secondary. Eventually I could afford to buy a rather massive equatorial mount from Astro-Optics, but decided to trash the steel pier and made a very solid wooden tripod for it, and a friend made a 10' worm drive for the RA axis though it was never motorised.Along the way helped to renovate a very fine Cooke 4.5' refractor at school.

This was a half-sized version of the Oddie at Mt Stromlo complete with clock drive.After moving to Sydney swapped the 8' and its mount for an orange C8 (mistake, regretted the C8 but I couldn't manage the big Newtonian where I was living at the time). Then a few years using a 6' f/5 for astrophotographers in the days of film.Then assembled a 12' Newtonian, Used that for 10 years or so.

Bought, used and sold a Meade 8'. Dropped out of the hobby 1993 until 2009 and now strictly visual using a 7' Mak on altaz mount. My first scope was a 3inch reflector mass produced white scope with a wobbly metal tripod with 2 eyepieces back in 1982 at the ripe old age of 15.

It came with 2 eyepieces: 5mm and 20mm. Altogether everything cost about $100.

It was this scope that I stumbled upon M 42 for the first time. Had absolutely no idea what I was looking at and concluded the mirror had muck on it so I took it apart and CLEANED IT. I believe I used soap and turps at the time. Interesting results! Didn't do it a second time and found out it was M 42 but felt like a real goose! I clean the 30 inch mirror a little differently these days.

Back in 1955, my Scout group was taken to visit an amateur astronomer in Thornleigh who had built his 12' reflector including mirror. Unfortunately, the cloud curse was in operation and apart from a few moon glimpses, we spent the evening glorying in the newfangled delights of stereophonic recordings.As I have spent a lifetime working in optics, I made a number of (unsuccessful) attempts at cobbling scopes made from spectacle lenses and impossibly long cardboard tubes.My first real scope, as I neared my use-by date, was and is an 8' collapsible dob on the advice of the beginners forum sticky by Brian Nolan.

This scope has undergone multiple mods and is still my favorite. I have a 'mighty ETX105' as a grab-n-go, and am currently joining the ranks of ATM with a travel scope build.Although they keep the beginners forum ticking over, I do wish more beginners would avail themselves of the accumulated wisdom of that forum before posting 'what should I buy?'

My first telescope was a self made 6 inch reflector back in 1965 when in second year at Taroona High School in Hobart. I had been inspired by the views through another student's reflector and determined to build one myself. I ground the mirror in a cramped space under the family home. Dad helped with some fabrication and the building of an alt-az mount on a steel tripod.It was quite successful and I remember many cold but enjoyable nights exploring the night sky.

I entered the scope and my observations in the then BHP Science Talent Search and was fortunate enough to win one of the major prizes.Unfortunately the scope was lost when our house and farm was destroyed by the 1967 bush fires. Then came a long break whilst at Uni, a career on the Australian mainland and a family.

Astronomy is now quickly becoming my main interest having finished work. And yes I am setting out to build another reflector - the design is complete and work will start soon. Mine was a Bushnell Spacemaster 60mm refractor, given that I can't find any photos of the model I have, I can only assume it was made some time between 1940 and 60's as models from the late 60's ad onwards bear little resemblance to mine. It was given to me second hand by my brother in the 70's. A quick google seach shows that they were, and still are, highly regarded as spotting scopes. I used it to view Halleys comet back in 1986.Made in Japan with a superb prismatic focussing system and screw in EP's solid as a rock, could probably withstand a nuclear blast.I still have it tucked away in the cupboard, I really should get it out and have a play.

One night, about 9 years ago, my wife and I let out our greyhounds for a final stroll, and she looked up and noticed a meteor arcing across our Long Island skies! As it faded away -and we resumed breathing - we talked about always wanting a telesope when growing up. We did some research on those 'goto' scopes by Meade and Celestron and checked them out at our local Camera/bino/telescope store. It was a toss up between a Meade 5' mak and the Celestron Nexstar 8i goto's.

The Celestron's larger aperture won out and we enjoyed that wonderful scope for a number of years. We enjoyed many fine views of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and even Uranus and Neptune (as bloated blue and green dots). We never forgot our first view of Saturn and Orion Nebula in the C8!The years passed and many telescopes came and went. We now enjoy viewing the night skies with a venerable 'manual' 10' Teleport dob but there are times that I miss that C8i for it's sturdy mount, dependable goto functionality and great optics.

One never forgets the thrill of 'first light' with his/her first Telescope. That blazing meteor ignited our long lost interest in the wonders of the night sky - and those wonders will never cease for us.:eyepop:George, NY. Hi all,Just getting into the mood of this thread.My first scope was a 10' f5.6 dob that I made myself (mirror included). It underwent a couple of remakes: from the original 'cannon'-style with a metal tube to a small esky-sized box that I could assemble in about 2 minutes.I remember heading off to a star party one weekend, and being pulled over for a routine breathalyser test (which I passed by the way:) ). The policeman was most concerned at the cannon/rocket-launcher/whatever in the back of my station wagon!Unfortunately the scope was stolen (just after I had re-figured the mirror so it was nearly perfect!!!), along with my trailer and a heap of gear, and has probably ended up on a junk-pile in some hoon's backyard.:(I later built a 12' version- still esky-sized- but this time I cheated and bought a GSO mirror.Not quite the same as the first one though!- Dean. My first scope was my imagination and a book called Stars of the Australian and New Zealand skies by Patrick Moore that my mother bought me for my 11th birthday.

I read it back to back so many times trying to understand the 'concepts'(this is how I remember it),of Light,maths,time and where I stood on the ground.I spent countless hours in the Canterbury Municipal Library (on canterbury road next to the station for those who remember),trying to find up to date info on stuff that Patrick was writing about. It slowly became clear that the book that I had at home was the up to date stuff.The edition she bought, that I still have today was the 1980 edition.

I thought,excuse the French, the pictures were so f$%.ing fantstic! They look like cartoon drawings compared to the stuff now! Anyhow time past,I come from a fishing family and later on in life when I was 28,I was on a trawler,F.V.

Imlay towing a net North at 3.4 knots just outside of three Nautical miles off GreenCape Southern NSW sunbaking on the bow for a few minutes when, and I quote my own mind here,'a green flaming thing' went 'Zot' into the water not 30m off the port bow. When we unloaded and due to weather, had a day at home, Idrove to Bega and was lucky enough to find a 110ml reflector Tasco,still in the box for $20.

Iwill put it up against the 250ml Meade I now also have,in certain situations, any day. I will never part with it. I probably should mention my first astronomical society meeting. Well once I joined the Grafton Astronomical Society, I was invited to a viewing out at (stu Campbell's,whom probably does not want to be mentioned,sorry stu.)and after cooking afew snags on his barbq and setting up my scope, was introduced to a late arrival,whoom set up his 8' dob and proceeded to show me around the sky. The cipher kathe koja download. Thank you Mr.Evans for the 3hrs of sky touring you could afford. I can still gather more Galaxies into an eyepiece than anyone I know to this day! The Rev Bob Evans is a Legend!

Despite a life long love of astronomy, wearing out the print on a Sir Patrick Moore astronomy book and visits to Sydney Observatory, except for a REALLY BAD refractor telescope from Kmart when I was 10 - my first telescope was a Saxon 114mm reflector when I turn 40!I'd long wanted to get one, but various other things kept coming up in life - I wanted to wait til I could afford a good one but it was hard to justify. 18 months ago I got a credit card 'rewards points' statement and lo and behold, I could get a telescope. The picture showed some refractor - it looked ok and was basically going to be 'free'.I sent away for it, took a month and when it arrived my wife freaked at the huge box that arrived! Turns out it wasn't the scope in the picture!Since then I've used it mainly for observing the moon and planets, although I'm starting to think about learning more, maybe upgrading etc. I got my first scope when I was 8 years old, the Tasco 40mm refractor, I was so excited just to see the moon.

The tiny table top tripod it came with was useless, so my dad modified one of his camera tripods to attach it to.In 1988 I received my Tasco 11T-R reflector for Christmas. Again I just looked at the moon as I never polar aligned it at all, all those years ago. Got it working great early last year and viewed Saturn through a scope for the first time, amazing.This picture was taken on the day I picked up my CGEM DX 1100 HD last year.I wonder how big the box (or boxes) will be for my next scope:P. I started experimenting with lenses in my early teensmade a few scope attempts.even trying a large movie projector mirrorresults largely unsuccessful.My first scope was an 8' F7 newtonian from Astro Optical Supplies in the late 1970's.

I saved for about 9 months and also got a sampson equatorial mount.The ep's were 40mm AH, 22mm Kellner, 9 and 4mm orthoscopic.The 8' F7 was a totally stunning mirror.a pity no one does 8' F7 anymoreI remember Astro Optical being very unsympathetic to a wide eye'd 13 year old with his parents. And Astro was about the only place around. There were also massive looking unitron refractors. With massive price tags to match, something like $4000- for a 4' F10 refractor.

Obvious 'pie in the sky' for a kid like me.I cracked the back of 8' F7 later and replaced it with an F6 and cut the tube down.Since then I've had many scopesBut I still miss the old 8 incher.

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