Well, if I have time I will make more detailed and better photos. This was just a quick shot yesterday evening after "wrapping it out". You can see a wonderfull photo of the Mizar CX-150 ( it's the same scope like the Tasco 16T ) on this site :
The optical design is a little bit unusual to common catadiopters. The corrector/barlow lens is placed in front of the little secondary-mirror and NOT in the OAZ.
I have such a mount before ( see my older postings about the Lichtenknecker on Mizar mount ). It's a giant, heavy mount with 180 teeth in RA. On the original parts of this scope you can not find a plastic part ( beside the caps ), it's all metal and wood. The mount feels so strong that I have the feeling, I could a add 2 16T on it !!
This setup was a high-price scope in 1978.
The first owner had paied around 2900 DM for it in 1978 !!
( maybe 1400 $ in 1978 or so..). And I thought, this was very much money in 1978 for a normal worker !!!
I will keep you informed - see you later !
Michael
and as mentioned before :
You can find the original catalog on Robert Provines fantastic site here :
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