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[RLP]

I picked this up at a thrift store, primarily as a display piece. It's marked circle-T, and I've seen variations on this little spotting scope under different brands online, but this is the only Celestron-branded version I've seen in Celestron orange. I had to have it to round out my collection of orange Celestrons.

Has anyone seen one of these before? Any idea when they were sold?

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Edited by RLP, 14 April 2025 - 04:56 PM.

[davidmcgo]

Cute!  That is from very early 1980s, I recall occasional ads for them,  it came out a bit after the C90 was introduced.  Tasco, Sears, Swift all sold same type but not in orange.

There was one on eBay recently but seller wanted close to $100 us for it.  I have all the other orange tubes except the Vixen made C6 and the refractors.  Hmm…

 

Dave

Edited by davidmcgo, 15 April 2025 - 07:49 AM.

[deSitter]

I picked this up at a thrift store, primarily as a display piece. It's marked circle-T, and I've seen variations on this little spotting scope under different brands online, but this is the only Celestron-branded version I've seen in Celestron orange. I had to have it to round out my collection of orange Celestrons.

Has anyone seen one of these before? Any idea when they were sold?

 

I remember practically an identical scope at K-Mart - FOCAL brand.

 

-drl