Soligor

[Seafury]

Hi does anyone on the forum have or know much about the Soligor 3.7 inch refractor that I have, that firm no longer exsists but the telescopes appear to have become GSO's subsequently

regards Gordon

[John]

The scope looks very similar (except in colour) to the Meade 395 90mm F/11.1 refractor that was in their range a few years ago but the mount I think is a GEM1 which, amongst others, Orion Optics (UK) used to use for some of their smaller scopes, again a few years back.

Has a rather "classic" look to it I think

[Seafury]

Hi John thanks for replying this the link for GSO and the scope,apart from colour, and the mount are identical they made an error in their specs it should say 93mm

Guan Sheng Optical

gordon

[John]

That figures - GSO make scopes for Meade !

I'm a refractor fan so I'd be interested to hear how your Soligor performs. Should be a great planetary, lunar and binary star scope

[Brass n glass]

I remember these in the 90s. They were sold in the UK before Skywatcher refractors and their clones started arriving here. I think Soligor was a German importer of kit from the Far East. There used to be Soligor Newtonians and eyepiece sets as well - Hugh

[Seafury]

hi john I will try and let you but quite sure what i'm looking for,

hugh that all sounds about right all the eyepieces are soligor it seems very well made and i think they made the lenses for pentax cameras at that time so perhaps the optics on the scopes maybe ok

gordon

[Naz]

My first zoom lens, away back when was a Soligor 70 ~ 230 mm, it was heavy!!

A bit of history on Soligor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia