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Jason H.
sage
Reged: 11/23/07
Posts: 323
Loc: Florida
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Yeah boy, this bad puppy is comin' at ya with 50 millimeters of light suckin' power! All shots taken afocally with Canon A530.
Moon
http://setisociety.org/MOON-50MM-VIVITAR-15DOLLAR-SCOPE-IMG_0933.jpg
A Jupiter stack
http://setisociety.org/JUPITER-IN-VIVITAR-MVI_0901ROXI.png
Saturn stack
http://setisociety.org/SATURN2-VIVITAR-MVI_0897.png
Side view of the 50 MM Vivitar
http://setisociety.org/50MM-VIVITAR-SIDE-VIEW.jpg
The business end of it.
http://setisociety.org/50-MM-VIVITAR-GLASS-IMG_0910.jpg
Comes with 2 eyepieces, a 12mm and a 6mm .96" w/plastic cases, an aluminum and plastic tripod with quarter-20 screw that can double as an ultra-light weight camera tripod, a metal OTA, weather-resistant genuine plastic rack-focuser, pen-like finder scope with glass on the end of it. The box has what appears to be demi-photo-realistic art work showing nebula and what appears to be a shot of the far side of the Moon from orbit (dang this scope is good!) I'm amazed that a $14.99 toy scope from Walgreens/China would even work! It's even better than a 60mm Meade I once tested.
That was fun! Jason H.
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Mare Nectaris
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 03/09/08
Posts: 1433
Loc: Toijala, Finland
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Sweet 
That Saturn made my day 
Thanks Jason for sharing this with us!
Be well!
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Share - and you shall have it all
Timo Keski-Petäjä
CtheMoon
Observation shelter KuuMaja (MoonHut)
TAL 250K*Celestron C8-N*SkyWatcher Skymax 150 Pro*TAL1(Mizar)*EQ6 Pro SynScan*Celestron Advanced GT (CG-5 GOTO)*Baader Hyperion Clickstop Zoom 8-24*17 mm UWA-70*TeleVue BIG 2x Barlow*Celestron 2x Barlow Ultima SV Series
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cpsTN
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 04/26/07
Posts: 1205
Loc: Tennessee (37129) 36N 86W
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50mm!!!! I didn't know walgreens sold such power in a box.
All kidding aside, those pix were very good for afocal with such a small aperture.
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Charles P. Sands
Observing since 12/29/86
8" f/5.9 dobsonian (Zhumell DSH-8), with 8x50 RACI
70mm f/5 achromatic refractor (Orion GoScope)
GSO plossls (12 15 20 40), Orion barlows (2x 3x)
10x50 Bushnell Falcon binos
15x70 Celestron StarMaster binos
S&T's POCKET SKY ATLAS
Kodak EasyShare Z915 digital camera
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The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the firmament sheweth His handywork
Psalm 19:1
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Trever
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/18/03
Posts: 2978
Loc: North Alabama
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It has potential for a lunar or solar scope anyways. Nice Moon pic.
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Trever
Explore Scientific 152mm F/6.5 Achromat
Celestron CGEM 11 XLT SCT
Lunt LS60THaDS50 B1200 w/pressure tuner
Nikon 8x42 Trailblazer Binos
Stellarvue M1 mount
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moron392
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 08/20/07
Posts: 813
Loc: Charlotte, NC
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i have one, but it broke.......
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"If you've done something right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
http://www.freewebs.com/moron392/index.htm
60mm meade ngc60 refractor.
Meade 70AZ-TR (short one)
50mm homemade refractor (occasionally with a solar filter)
starblast4.5EQ
6mm,15mm expanse eyepieces
9mm meade Mh eyepiece,17.5mm Meade MA
nikon 7x35's
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Weiseguy
member
Reged: 04/01/08
Posts: 21
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That Jupiter pic is fantastic for such an inexpensive scope.
I've spent alot of time looking at Jupiter with a 60 mm Walmart scope and I never came close to that kind of detail.
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The_Vagabond
member
Reged: 10/27/08
Posts: 26
Loc: Jacksonville, Florida
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Came across one of these in 2006 at a Walgreens in West Palm Beach. Picked it up. Tripod leaves much to be desired, and the finderscope is a joke. But I replaced the diagonal with a hybrid, and was very surprised. And, to their credit, they didn't exagerate this telescope's abilities. Much.
For $14.99, yeah, not bad.
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I have loved the stars too dearly to be fearful of the night...
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revans
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/26/05
Posts: 1517
Loc: Fitchburg, MA
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Well... I just hope the scope is better than the 7 x 50mm Vivitar binoculars I recently returned to the pharmacy I bought them at... I truly believe that they were the worst binoculars ever made... bought them new for $12 and returned them... not worth the $12...
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Rick Evans
http://www.freewebs.com/revans_01420/
"The universe is there for us to see, but it cannot be understood without learning its language -- mathematics." Galileo Galilei
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old_frankland
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/28/05
Posts: 524
Loc: San Francisco Bay Area
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Way cool!
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Cheers,
Jim
Livermore CA
http://www.lafterhall.com/astro.html
3" APO, 4" ED refractor, 9" SCT, GM8
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Deep13
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 01/25/05
Posts: 1843
Loc: NE Ohio
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Are you going to mount that thing on the G11? 
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That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Brian Albin
Seeker
Reged: 08/22/06
Posts: 539
Loc: Western Oregon
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You got some amazingly small craters!
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