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[Darren Drake]

A Tasco 20T somehow hits home.  Just look at that price and the shipping weight!!..

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[deSitter]

A Tasco 20T somehow hits home.  Just look at that price and the shipping weight!!..

I wonder why the huge weight? Possibly it arrived crated. It's not that much bigger than my 6345 90/1400mm and that cannot have been more that 100 lbs.

 

edit: 97 lbs

 

-drl

 

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Edited by deSitter, 18 November 2024 - 10:52 AM.

[highfnum]

dynascope ads

[geovermont]

Dynascope, ads, Jaeger's two-page ads, which I pinned to a wall!  Unitron ad where a kid and his father were observing from a beach.  The Quantum 4 full-page ad, one most beautiful ads I've seen.  C14 ad seeing the size of a scope that was then unobtainable to me.  Clave eyepiece ads, .  Coulter ad where they guy is looking at the new telescope mirror.  Some of the stories in the mags were fascinating.  A guy's observatory with a five-inch Unitron.  The Sky & Tel planet finder and Astronomy magazine's attractive 1980s centre monthly map with star colours.

I bet that was the February 1974 S&T article about the 5 inch Unitron (Polarex) in Norway. What a beautiful observatory! And the scope lives on today in a new home with its odyssey described on Cloudy Nights (https://www.cloudyni...olarex-unitron/).

Edited by geovermont, 25 November 2024 - 07:04 PM.

[clamchip]

The ad for the Edmund 4 inch refractor pert near got me kicked out of school.

A spent many a please stay after class doing make up because I wasn't listening to the teacher because

I was reading my "little book."

And this catalog from 1969 is just about the right date too 12 years old and in Jr. High not a care in the

world my head was full of astronomy and space 24-7.

Robert

 

Edited by clamchip, 26 November 2024 - 11:00 AM.

[clamchip]

[Granite Glasser]

This one!

[deSitter]

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I was just trying to get a mental image of the size of the 4" and I failed. Can you post a pic next to a classic 3" like a Tasco?

 

-drl

[clamchip]

I have a picture of the Edmund 4" next to a Edmund 3" which is the same physical size as a Tasco 3 inch.

 

Edited by clamchip, 26 November 2024 - 10:58 AM.

[deSitter]

I have a picture of the Edmund 4" next to a Edmund 3" which is the same physical size as a Tasco 3 inch.

 

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Wow! How about the 4" next to the 6345? I had mine next to a 6344 and the latter was dwarfed!

 

-drl

[GaryM]

It's a close one between Questar and Unitron but I would say these two are burned into my memories the most from years of starring and drooling.

 

 

 

 

 

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