
What company made star liner reflectors??
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Posted 09 May 2011 - 11:06 PM
#2
Posted 10 May 2011 - 01:17 AM
JimBo
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Posted 10 May 2011 - 06:07 AM
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Posted 10 May 2011 - 01:16 PM
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Posted 10 May 2011 - 05:00 PM
#7
Posted 10 May 2011 - 05:01 PM
#8
Posted 10 May 2011 - 05:15 PM
i heard they were as good as the rest like cave criterion meade etc
They could be. Always? No. Often? No. Sometimes? Yeah.
#9
Posted 10 May 2011 - 08:58 PM
#10
Posted 11 May 2011 - 04:29 PM
They were all good in those days and were pretty consistent too dale
Sorry...not in my experience...and I was around in those days.

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#11
Posted 11 May 2011 - 05:35 PM
#12
Posted 11 May 2011 - 06:38 PM
I'd take a well-made, well-collimated set of Cave, OC, Criterion, Starliner, Coast Instrument Newtonian optics over most modern mass-produced optics anyday.
...but I would inspect before I bought, or offer based on the risk involved.
-Tim.
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Posted 11 May 2011 - 07:14 PM
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Posted 11 May 2011 - 11:46 PM


#15
Posted 12 May 2011 - 06:10 AM
#16
Posted 12 May 2011 - 10:51 AM
Reflectors 6" to 40", Newtonian and Cassegrain.
I understand some interesting equatorial fork mountings were made and very sharp looking German equatorial.
The Star-Liners seem to fit into that group of telescopes made in the 1960's thru 80's that were made by Amateur Astronomers for Amateur Astronomers and not a bunch of penny pinching bean counters, hence their demise.
It does appear they did make "econo" and "econo deluxe" models to broaden the market.
Robert
#17
Posted 12 May 2011 - 11:02 AM
-Tim
#18
Posted 12 May 2011 - 03:45 PM
What company made star liner reflectors??
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Star-liner.

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Posted 12 May 2011 - 06:11 PM
#20
Posted 12 May 2011 - 06:11 PM
I like the cass-newt convertible in the picture. Swap secondaries to go f4 newt or f12 cassegrain. I wonder how that was done, if a cassette system or what.
Robert
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Posted 12 May 2011 - 06:12 PM
#22
Posted 12 May 2011 - 06:25 PM
Just remember that, back when all these companies were claiming 1/10th, 1/20th or even higher quality mirrors, they had no way to quantitatively confirm those values.
Also, 1/10th of what? IR, Red, Green, Blue?
Radio waves?

-Tim
#23
Posted 12 May 2011 - 07:38 PM
That is nice robert boy a 6f/8 back then was $185.00 and the star liner mirrors were equal or better than 1/10th wave?/
Well, that's what we HOPED anyway!

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Posted 12 May 2011 - 08:30 PM
#25
Posted 12 May 2011 - 09:00 PM
Chas