Thanks to you all for your nice words !

Well, if I have time I will make more detailed and better photos. This was just a quick shot yesterday evening after "wrapping it out". You can see a wonderfull photo of the Mizar CX-150 ( it's the same scope like the Tasco 16T ) on this site :

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://img.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/f7/77/solunarneo/folder/1166371/img_1166371_27173263_0%3F1242567270&imgrefurl=http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/solunarneo/27173263.html&usg=__9brA7_YS1SK8pSzeW6EaPO0bZi0=&h=1128&w=800&sz=213&hl=de&start=43&um=1&tbnid=IvsSb2q1VHwPXM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMizar%2BCX-150%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DN%26start%3D40%26um%3D1

The optical design is a little bit unusual to common catadiopters. The corrector/barlow lens is placed in front of the little secondary-mirror and NOT in the OAZ.

I have such a mount before ( see my older postings about the Lichtenknecker on Mizar mount ). It's a giant, heavy mount with 180 teeth in RA. On the original parts of this scope you can not find a plastic part ( beside the caps ), it's all metal and wood. The mount feels so strong that I have the feeling, I could a add 2 16T on it !!

This setup was a high-price scope in 1978.
The first owner had paied around 2900 DM for it in 1978 !!
( maybe 1400 $ in 1978 or so..). And I thought, this was very much money in 1978 for a normal worker !!!

I will keep you informed - see you later !

Michael

and as mentioned before :

You can find the original catalog on Robert Provines fantastic site here :

http://geogdata.csun.edu/~voltaire/classics/tasco/tascotel.pdf

There is a nice picture from the 16T