AaronM
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Hello dear friends,
because of the rainy weather here, I have made a few more pics indoor. I have cleaned the hole scope and refurbished the wooden cabinets.
The hole setup is very heavy and feels like high quality mechanical and optical workmanship. It weighs around 31 kg !
Here is the first new pic :
It shows nearly the original setup with the Tasco Panhead cameraholder like it has been pictured in the original Tasco 1978 catalog ! The only thing, thats not original is the 8x50 finder instead the original 15x40 finder scope.
Edited by AaronM (06/27/09 12:41 PM)
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AaronM
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and here is my complete setup with the 70/700 guide-scope
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AaronM
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and here you can see details of the GEM
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AaronM
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The mount is very sturdy - a fantastic mechanical work ! For comparison I find it much more stable than a EQ5 or Vixen GP !
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AaronM
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The setting circles are fine engraved, not printed !
There's no plastic on the mount and the scope. Only the caps, and some mount knobs are from plastic. The other materials are all metall, glass and wood.
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AaronM
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Here is the babe in its wooden cabinet - theres another wooden cabinet for the GEM.
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AaronM
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Here is the label
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AaronM
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And now for the fans of the opticals desingn - here is the mysterious barlow-element. It is screwed in front of the secondary mirror and looks like a little achromatic objective.
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AaronM
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a overview about the mirrors. In pos. 1 you can see the parabolic main-mirror, in pos. 2 you can see the secondary mirror in its setup with the attached barlow element ( arrow-mark )
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AaronM
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a lttle nice detail from the wooden cabinet. On the clips(?) for closing the cabinet is a dogs head engraved !
Maybe Galakuma knows this sign or manufacturer ?
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AaronM
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This is so far all from me by now. Well, as I said before, I want to write a little article about this scope with more and better photos. But only if you are interested ! I will not boring you !
But : my english is not so perfect - my suggestion is, that I could write an article with photos and save it as a Word-file ( *.doc ). If someone here is willing, I coulkd send my article to him/her for correcting my faults in english text. But I dont know, if its possible, to publish a bigger word-file here in the forum ?
( I guess, for a publishing in the CN-classic-reviews, my article would not good enough...or to boring ). What do you think ?
Kind regards, Michael and thanks for reading this !
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David E
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Aaron, those are wonderful photos! 
Thanks for sharing this, it's a real gem of a telescope system and I know you'll enjoy it for many years to come!
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David E
If you keep a stack of old Orion catalogs in your bathroom, you might be an astro-redneck.
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rustynailz911
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i have a question myself what is a OR eyepiece never heard of that one before.
Russ
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4.5"F8 Newt
9.7mm Meade 4000 Plossl 52 Deg FOV
15mm Meade 4000 Plossl 52 Deg FOV
26mm Meade 4000 Plossl 52 Deg FOV
2x Shorty Acromatic Barlow
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JamesE
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Nice Pics. Thanks for sharing. Your english is great Aaron. You should definitely write a review.
I have not seen a mount like that before. Has anyone else seen a mount like that other than on a Tasco?
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(Thanks to Attilla for the Clear Sky charts)
Current Projects : Tasco 15TEA - 3 inch pier mounted planetary scope
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frebie
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OR is usually the designation for orthoscopic.
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Questar 7", BB, Zerodur, Questar equatorial fork
Questar 3.5", BB, Questar Tri-Stand short pier
TMB92, Astro-Tech AT66, Voyager altaz mount
Celestron NexStar 5i
Edmund Astroscan
Toting privileges on whatever scope is set up in the store
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AaronM
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Hello dear friends,
two other views...
at first the massive mount saddle
CS Michael
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AaronM
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another view on the GEM
Kind regrads Michael
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mikey cee
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Aaron.....As you have now witnessed first hand Tasco didn't market too shabby of a product. Your 16T and my 20TE are prime and rare examples of each type of scope.   Mike
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7x35 and 10x50 sears tower binocs, 3" f/10 edmunds reflector, 2.4" f/11.7 manon refractor, 6" f/8 jaegers refractor, "The 8 Ball" 8" f/13.3 brandt refractor, 3" f/15.8 sans&streiffe refractor, 3.1" f/15 selsi refractor(towa 339), 2.4" f/15 sears refractor, selsi 30x30mm spyglass, criterion 5-draw 25x45x75x spyglass(1957), 4.25" f/14.8 tasco 20te.
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AaronM
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Mikey , it's allways a pleasure to see your marvelous 20TE - an absolutly dream !! Fantastic !!!!!!
I'm allways wondering, why Tasco had pictured it so small in their 1978 catalog ? I mean, that was the most "professional" telescope from Tasco and it had should
been the eyecatcher in a telescope-catalog !?
Maybe Tasco knows in 1978 soon, that the 20 TE is a rare beast ??
I guess, if you wanted to order a 20TE in 1978, you have long long to wait for it ?...
Kind regards, Michael
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mikey cee
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Aaron...I can't tell for sure but is your finder mounted in the original rings. Are you going to actively search for a 15x40 finder? Most of these finder types say 12x40 is this what you meant to say?  Mike
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7x35 and 10x50 sears tower binocs, 3" f/10 edmunds reflector, 2.4" f/11.7 manon refractor, 6" f/8 jaegers refractor, "The 8 Ball" 8" f/13.3 brandt refractor, 3" f/15.8 sans&streiffe refractor, 3.1" f/15 selsi refractor(towa 339), 2.4" f/15 sears refractor, selsi 30x30mm spyglass, criterion 5-draw 25x45x75x spyglass(1957), 4.25" f/14.8 tasco 20te.
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