refractory
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Reged: 02/05/05
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There's always do-it-yourself, either using flesh-stripping beetles or steam. Have any aversion to certain radio personalities as volunteers? Some might take a bit more treatment than others.
Jess Tauber
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JamesE
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 10/22/07
Posts: 1114
Loc: Westbank, BC, Canada
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Mint little 50mm Tasco
50mm Tasco on the Bay
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James
(Thanks to Attilla for the Clear Sky charts)
Current Projects : Tasco 15TEA - 3 inch pier mounted planetary scope
Priorities : Wife, Kids
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tim53
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1447
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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If an imitator put one on a triplane you'd have a faker Fecker Fokker.
Jess 'The Red (Tube) Baron' Tauber
"heck no! These Fokkers were flyin' Messerscmidts!"
Tim
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2818
Loc: 3rd Rock
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Here here cheap and they will ship as well.
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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tim53
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1447
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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Wasn't sure whether to post it here, but 2045 on L.A. craiglist. Seller wants $280 (yesterday it was $300), which is pretty high for one of these. I have a 2045 OTA, and it's "underwonderful" optically. Okay, just nothing to write home about. I paid $100 after Halley at RTMC. Any idea what the astro model might be worth today? It's less than 5 miles from here, I might just go check it out for hoots. But if someone else wants it, I won't lose any sleep.
-Tim.
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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CHASLX200
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/29/07
Posts: 1808
Loc: Tampa area Florida
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Wasn't sure whether to post it here, but 2045 on L.A. craiglist. Seller wants $280 (yesterday it was $300), which is pretty high for one of these. I have a 2045 OTA, and it's "underwonderful" optically. Okay, just nothing to write home about. I paid $100 after Halley at RTMC. Any idea what the astro model might be worth today? It's less than 5 miles from here, I might just go check it out for hoots. But if someone else wants it, I won't lose any sleep.
-Tim.
I've owned four 2045's, 3 astro versions and a 2045 spotter.
Only the spotter had good optics, all the others were pretty bad.
Chas
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tim53
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1447
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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I should note that this one's an LX3 to boot. I may ask the seller if it has the hand controller and dec motor. It's missing the case, though.
-Tim.
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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Jae
professor emeritus
Reged: 04/13/06
Posts: 559
Loc: near Boston
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Tim - does your 2045 ota have astigmatism ? If it does, there a better than good chance that you can by rotating the corrector in increments, you can revive the "unwonderful" to near wonderful... I was shocked what that did to my 2045D- essentially the same Multi-coated optics as the LX3 I believe. Then the LX3 is a bargain...
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Jae
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tim53
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Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1447
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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Jae:
I don't remember whether it does or not. I do recall that, after I bought it, I adjusted the 2ndary collimation, and found that it did pretty good, even on planets, so long as I didn't try to put too much magnification on it.
But, years later, I may have screwed things up, because I cut out the 2ndary baffle to try to reduce the CO for planetary. So, while my 2045 is otherwise in decent condition, it doesn't have a 2ndary baffle, so I've never figured I'd sell it.
For a few years while I was still shooting film, I used it as a guide scope on my 8" Springfield. It worked well for that. I've never used it for anything else, though, since it lives piggyback on something else when I do use it.
This LX3 might be fun as an airline portable scope (I was in Tuscany a couple weeks ago on business, and wished I had SOME telescope with me, as I could see the Milky Way from the hotel terrace).
I may go for this one IF it has the hand controller, but I don't think I will if it doesn't. They were rare enough that finding one now would probably be difficult, and pricey. The case was nothing special. I could probably find or make a suitable replacement.
-tim
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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tim53
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1447
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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Seller got back to me. Scope does include the HC and dec motor. Should I go check it out?
-Tim.
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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Preston Smith
Military Observer
Reged: 04/24/05
Posts: 3440
Loc: Eureka, Pa
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Tasco Linky
Someone here has one of this with the white (porcelain) handles?
Now Preston, you're the resident expert on the 7TE are you not. How are the views through this 1950'ish unit?
Yep, this is a Tasco from the 50s. Before the Solarama series (7TE-5) and the 7TE. Large, long, single focuser tube and a non-collimable lens cell makes this a harbinger of the 7TE. It think I see two very small clamshell chips on the objective but I don't think they will impact on optical performance.
The big question is if the objective is from Astro Optics or Towa. Unfortunately there isn't a picture of the focuser label so we can't look for corporate symbols.
Things that I find most intriguing about the scope are how the finder is mounted, the fluted knobs of the focuser and the older box which has cloth strip tiedowns.
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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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Jae
professor emeritus
Reged: 04/13/06
Posts: 559
Loc: near Boston
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Tim,
I'd check it out. It might be pretty minty if the optics had astigmatism. Then they don't get used. I guess I have more confidence that these can be resurrected. I'd buy it if it's clean.
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Jae
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tim53
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1447
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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Jae:
Rod says not more than 200. Whataya think?
I've got to go back and work on the kitchen porch steps, but when I'm done with that, I may give the guy a call.
-Tim.
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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Jae
professor emeritus
Reged: 04/13/06
Posts: 559
Loc: near Boston
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Rod's the man - I love reading his buyer's guide and have his book too.
PM sent.
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Jae
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Steve_M_M
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 06/09/04
Posts: 976
Loc: Moorpark, CA
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$200 is what came to my mind when I first saw the ad last week. The guy seems intent on $280, so you will have to decide.
Steve
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1956 Goto Optical 6" f15 Observatory Refractor
From the Titan Observatory as featured in S&T 1957-1959
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1961 Nishimura 6" Reflector
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tim53
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1447
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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I'm going to sit and let the concept fester a few days. That, and I worked hard on the kitchen porch today, so I don't want to go out! ;oD
-Tim.
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
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Happy-Idiot
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 2818
Loc: 3rd Rock
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Nice set right in our own house. (CN's that is) 
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Brian
A small scope that gets used often is a better investment than a big scope that stays in the closet.
Unitrons, you spend more time looking at them than you do through them.
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akman1955
sage
Reged: 09/07/09
Posts: 363
Loc: Alaska, USA
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 right brian, i agree..john
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Falcon-
sage
Reged: 09/11/09
Posts: 241
Loc: Gambier Island, BC, Canada
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I am still no expert on juding these things, but I think I may have found a listing for a Towa labled 80mm f/15 on the Seattle CL:
"Japanese 80mm x 1200mm telescope."
If it is what I think it is, I wish I had the budget!
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Tasco 11TE-5 'Lunagrosso': 4.5" Newtonian, 900mm f/7.9
Meade DS-2114S: 4.5" Newtonian, 1000mm f/8.8
Galileoscope: 50mm Achromatic Refractor, 500mm f/10
Tasco EQ-2-like mount w/ clock drive
Celestron CG-5GT mount
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mikey cee
Post Laureate
Reged: 01/18/07
Posts: 3520
Loc: bellevue ne.
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I believe this is one of ours. So you should be confident in going forward here.  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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