What about a Celestron 8" schmidt-cassegrain, circa 1980, original tripod, fork mount and drive, orange tube, looking a little picked on these days, still in regular use. Probably can still find an original eyepiece in the collection. Or how about a 6" Brandt Refractor, circa 1982, wood tripod, Buyers drive, two Clave eyepieces just as old. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Richard Tenney" <retenney@yahoo.com>, "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 1:49:19 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Vintage telescopes Cave 10" f/6 Custom Super Deluxe on polished Astrola mount (1975), 8" Byers drive retrofit, JMI focuser retrofit, both done by Don Colton RV-6 6" Dynascope (1979) 4" Dynascope (~1960) Penncrest 60mm x 1000mm refractor on EQ-2 style mount, original mahogany box (~1970s) Edmund 4.25" Palomar Jr. f/11 Newt (under restoration) Jaegers 110mm f/4.5 RFT refractor on Jaegers 1" shaft GEM (recent OTA build) mount and objective circa 1980) 50mm f/20 refractor OTA on Edmund 5/8" shaft GEM (Objective is ~1950s American manufacture, mount is circa 1960s - 70s on home made tripod) On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
My RV-6 is from 1972, as is the custom deluxe Dynascope 8" (with a professional tube repair, lengthened tripod legs and fresh coat of paint thanks to Chuck).
Both deliver excellent images. /R
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