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Lew Chilton
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Reged: 10/20/05
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Re: Restoration of the earliest? Schaefer telescop
06/13/09 04:54 PM Attachment (11 downloads)
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I just dug up this picture from my personal archive. It's from a December 11, 1960 newspaper article about Tom Cave the Mars observer. He is shown at the eyepiece of his personal scope, a 12-inch Newt. mounted in his backyard observatory. (I'm pretty sure that Alika Herring made the mirror.)
I had the privilege of looking thru it on one or two occasions in the 1958-1960 timeframe when I was a guest at one of the meetings of the Excelsior Telescope Club held at Tom's home in Long Beach, California.
Note the mount: it is not an Astrola but appears to be a Bill Schaefer designed and built equatorial head - correct me if I'm wrong. (Also note the telephone wires strung over Tom's backyard!)
This scope was something like an f/7 or f/8, so Tom needed a stepladder or observing platform to reach the eyepiece. In this photo, he is seated on his observing platform for comfortable viewing.
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I don't get no respect, but my scopes do! 
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1961 Swift 60mm model 839 (2); 2003 TV-102/GM-8; 1959 8" f/6 Treckerscope; 1959 8" f/7.4 Murray Scope; 1959 Fecker Celestar-4; 1978 4" Edmund Astroscan; c. 1986 4-inch Celestron-Vixen SP-C102; c. 1950 20X60 Saturn spotting scope; 1963 7X50 Nippon Kogaku binoculars; Unitron #114 alt-az mount (Swifty-tron)
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