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[Echolight]

I don't know. I have amassed a bunch of small telescopes. Haven't sold any yet.

The only thing I regret is buying two old helical meniscus focusing C90's and an old made in Japan Celestron 60mm refractor.

All the others taught me something. And because most were bought used, at a very good price, I won't lose much for the education.

The current for sure little scope keepers are an old Starblast 113, and bought new C5 and ST102.

 

My 24 year old flat back made in U.S.A. C8 is kind of classic.

 

A 90's goto ETX90 you say? Yeah, I got one.

....on an SLT mount.

The classic Starblast beats it though. Maybe I'll try it out on the SLT.

Edited by Echolight, 05 September 2024 - 12:12 PM.

[pstarr]

I regret selling this 10" f-5-6 that I built in the early 70's. The mount was very sturdy, drives on both axis, excellent optics and whole set up was very portable and easy to handle. Of course I was much younger then too. I'll be 78 in October.

 

 

[pstarr]

I regret selling this 10" f-5-6 that I built in the early 70's. The mount was very sturdy, drives on both axis, excellent optics and whole set up was very portable and easy to handle. Of course I was much younger then too. I'll be 78 in October.

 

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Thought I would add a photo of Saturn I took with this setup. It was long before digital photography. It was taken with Plus-X film, a Nikon-F camera and although the reprint lost a lot of detail, it was used to illustrate an article in the first issue of Astronomy magazine. 

 

[roscoe]

I had and restored an older Vixen 80MM..... and later sold it.  Stupid move!  It was a fabulous telescope.

[Bomber Bob]

I have some degree of regret for every decent old scope that I parted with -- so many scopes, so many cloudy nights, so little storage space...