Is anyone else collecting / working on 40 and 50 mm Japanese import refractors these days?
I recently acquired a really nice, very early 50 x 600 mm Tasco refractor from (my best guess),
around 1959, and I am wondering what to do with it. That is, either leave it "as is" and clean it
up as best that I can, or remount it on a vintage 60 mm tripod and add a finder so that it can
actually be used as an astronomical telescope.
I have done this with a later model Tasco 6TE, adding an elevation slo-mo control as well, and
it gives good views of the moon and bright planets.
Likewise, is anyone else doing anything with respect to converting the ubiquitous Tasco 4VTE's
into astronomical scopes, and -- if so -- what results have you had with them?
Here, BTW, is an earlier thread that touches on using the 6TE-class scopes.
https://www.cloudyni...35-tasco-6te-5/