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[Terra Nova]

A green, a black, a blue, a grey, lots of white, some age yellowed, and this Fecker...hard to say. 

That’s Feckering cool!

[schiefspiegler]

A green, a black, a blue, a grey, lots of white, some age yellowed, and this Fecker...hard to say. 

Jackson Pollock would be proud!

[deSitter]

A green, a black, a blue, a grey, lots of white, some age yellowed, and this Fecker...hard to say. 

That was a thing in the 50s. There was a paint called Zolatone. It had little flecks embedded in the paint matrix. Old diners often have well-used tables and counters with similar flecking. Bowling balls had such decoration.

 

BTW Donald Menzel in his superb book "Field Guide to the Stars and Planets" recommended only 3 scopes - the Bausch & Lomb Balscope, the Unitron, and the Fecker reflectors. Pretty high praise.

 

-drl

[schiefspiegler]

That was a thing in the 50s. There was a paint called Zolatone. It had little flecks embedded in the paint matrix. Old diners often have well-used tables and counters with similar flecking. Bowling balls had such decoration.

 

BTW Donald Menzel in his superb book "Field Guide to the Stars and Planets" recommended only 3 scopes - the Bausch & Lomb Balscope, the Unitron, and the Fecker reflectors. Pretty high praise.

 

-drl

Yet Menzel's personal telescope circa the 1970s was an 8-inch Criterion Dynamax SCT, which suffer from a rather dodgy reputation when it comes to optical quality.

[Garyth64]

 

BTW Donald Menzel in his superb book "Field Guide to the Stars and Planets" recommended only 3 scopes - the Bausch & Lomb Balscope, the Unitron, and the Fecker reflectors. Pretty high praise.

 

-drl

Unitron, 3" or larger; B&L, Balscope; Fecker, 4" Celestar and larger sizes; Questar, and special CATs by Fecker.

(I still have my book from 1965.)

[Kasmos]

For a thread about Color there's not enough photos 

This photo doesn't show off their colors that well and doesn't include a couple, but it's easier to post as a group

 

The C8 is missing

 

 

 

[lsquaredb]

White with wrinkled black mount

White with grey mount

White with hammered blue mount

Brass, painted white, covered with brown paper with half a mount, gloss black

[CHASLX200]

Maybe white for this one off Proto star 2 piece tube.

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[starman876]

For a thread about Color there's not enough photos 

RefractRainbow.jpg

This photo doesn't show off their colors that well and doesn't include a couple, but it's easier to post as a group

 

Orange-Cs.jpg

The C8 is missing

what is the brass tube OTA?

[Kasmos]

what is the brass tube OTA?

The photo doesn't represent the colors very well

None of them are brass so I'm guessing you are reffering to one of these two?

The Jaegers has a bare aluminum tube and the Aerolite is sort of a brownish metalic silver that's hard to capture.

 

It's a good excuse to post this pic, I had originally thought of doing it anyway.

Some people don't, but I like the color.

[deSitter]

The photo doesn't represent the colors very well

None of them are brass so I'm guessing you are reffering to one of these two?

Jaegers-Aero-ID.jpg

The Jaegers has a bare aluminum tube and the Aerolite is sort of a brownish metalic silver that's hard to capture.

 

Aerolite-859.jpg

It's a good excuse to post this pic, I had originally thought of doing it anyway.

Some people don't, but I like the color.

That looks like the metal legs on the 6344, but without the aluminum lock rings and extensions.

 

-drl

[Kasmos]

That looks like the metal legs on the 6344, but without the aluminum lock rings and extensions.

 

-drl

It has them, just out of view.

 

This pic kind of shows the OTA's color better as well.

[deSitter]

It has them, just out of view.

 

Aerolite-OTA-Legs.jpg

This pic kind of shows the OTA's color better as well.

A very handsome scope. The metal legs work better here in terms of aesthetics.

 

-drl

[deSitter]

The photo doesn't represent the colors very well

None of them are brass so I'm guessing you are reffering to one of these two?

Jaegers-Aero-ID.jpg

The Jaegers has a bare aluminum tube and the Aerolite is sort of a brownish metalic silver that's hard to capture.

 

Aerolite-859.jpg

It's a good excuse to post this pic, I had originally thought of doing it anyway.

Some people don't, but I like the color.

BTW - for those who might not know - the focuser knobs are metal! That must be more or less unique to this series. Don't know if anodized or painted.

 

-drl

[Terra Nova]

Unitron, 3" or larger; B&L, Balscope; Fecker, 4" Celestar and larger sizes; Questar, and special CATs by Fecker.

(I still have my book from 1965.)

Me too, also from 1965 in perfect condition other than the dust cover that’s falling apart.