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mustgobigger
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 06/12/07
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Holy Cow.
8" F/15 Zeiss Folded Refractor.
Wonder How Much This Will Go For.
Gulp!
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RV-6
Meade 826
Meade 880 Deluxe
Unitron's 114,128,140,142,150,152,155,160
4" Jaegertron
4.5" A.E f/14 Refractor
4" f/15 Edmund's Refractor
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Preston Smith
Military Observer
Reged: 04/24/05
Posts: 3437
Loc: Eureka, Pa
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Hey Brian,
This DEFINITELY falls into the "mustgobigger" mantra....
Time to sell all those Unitrons and move up to bigger scopes! 
Zeiss, Zeiss, Zeiss, Zeiss,
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Preston
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Isaiah 40:26
SV115T,NHII,SV70,SV50 and Tele Vue Ranger
Vintage Refractors: Asahi-Pentax, Edmund Scientific, Tasco, Unitron
60mm Telescope Club
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mustgobigger
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 2421
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hey preston,
i doubt i could afford that one.(AKA Divorce Court)
looks sweet though.
brian
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RV-6
Meade 826
Meade 880 Deluxe
Unitron's 114,128,140,142,150,152,155,160
4" Jaegertron
4.5" A.E f/14 Refractor
4" f/15 Edmund's Refractor
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horizon
member
Reged: 12/18/05
Posts: 88
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I remember this from a Baader catalog I had when I was twelve...I always wondered what the image in one of those would be and it remains my dream to look thru one. Curiously this telescope is located near Stuttgart (Germany) which is also the place where I lived when I grew up.
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Takahashi FS-102 NSV
H-EQ5 Sky Scan
Hyperion 13mm, Pentax XF 8.5mm, TS-HR 5mm
TMB ED Barlow x1.8
10x70 Orion Little Giants
--< I hate all light younger than 8.3 minutes >--
-Clear Skies
-Michael
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akman1955
sage
Reged: 09/07/09
Posts: 362
Loc: Alaska, USA
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 Thats Neat!! if you look at dew shield (how it attach's) and screws on main tube it is almost exactly like 3" unitron compact refractor only bigger. The 4" unitron compact had a screw on dew shield. Why no picture's of lense 
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akman1955
sage
Reged: 09/07/09
Posts: 362
Loc: Alaska, USA
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 Also who copied who?? Unitron or Zeiss?
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Preston Smith
Military Observer
Reged: 04/24/05
Posts: 3437
Loc: Eureka, Pa
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Quote:
Also who copied who?? Unitron or Zeiss?
Unitron copied Zeiss. I have been told by a reliable source that the 102mm Unitron was an exact copy of a Zeiss objective.
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Preston
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Isaiah 40:26
SV115T,NHII,SV70,SV50 and Tele Vue Ranger
Vintage Refractors: Asahi-Pentax, Edmund Scientific, Tasco, Unitron
60mm Telescope Club
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akman1955
sage
Reged: 09/07/09
Posts: 362
Loc: Alaska, USA
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Yes that seem's correct as Zeiss was in business longer then unitron. At least unitron did a good job on lense copy. neat and thanks for information preston. John
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deSitter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/09/04
Posts: 2926
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Quote:
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Also who copied who?? Unitron or Zeiss?
Unitron copied Zeiss. I have been told by a reliable source that the 102mm Unitron was an exact copy of a Zeiss objective.
This would make sense, as post-war Japan's optical industry used Zeiss as the model.
-drl
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