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ehorvath

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  1. I was asked to send pics of my scope to a couple of "old timer" astronomers that are, I guess, Celestron specialists, and I found out mine was made in 1983 or 1984 as those were the 2 years that Celestron made the black tube for the vitage age telescopes. Everyone, regardless, seems to be puzzled why my Serial # is hand written in pencil on the OTA as I guess most were on the base on a metal plate or on the corrector plate.
  2. WOW, what an interesting thread and I'm glad it popped up in a Yahoo Search. So here are my 2 cents. A friend gave me one of his vintage scopes today, a Celestron SPC8, black tube, original vintage 7 Degree spotting scope and original wood tripod with the Super Polaris EQ mount. He said it was the early 1980's and definitely not after 1985! Here is where mine seems to differ from others I've seen pics of online. Mine is not fork/arm mounted, it is attached using 2 screws on a permanently attached bar on top of the mount - it is not a dovetail either, just two roughly 1/4" diameter screws and they screw into little protrusions (kind of like little feet) on the bottom of the tube rings. I weighed it today and it was just over 13 pounds. The back plastic part where the eyepiece goes is textured but quite smooth....I know that sounds odd but you can clearly see it is textured but when touched, it is smooth, not rough or bumpy. I don't know what it is called but on the eyepiece coming out of the scope, you screw on a metal piece (it is two pieces that are loose until tightened onto the scope) and then the diagonal goes into it and then the eyepiece goes into the diagonal. Focuser is about a 1 3/8" long textured knob about as round as my first finger (maybe the thickness of a chapstick tube). The tripod has the typical R.A. and Dec setting circles but on the back, under the cover of the built in "polar scope" there is also 2 scales on this as well, one large one and one smaller one. All "setting circles" are obviously numbered but there is also what looks like Chinese writing on each one as well. The R.A. and Dec "lock knobs" are little push levers, not bolts/screws as with today's lock knobs. As for a serial number.....this is interesting....I looked everywhere people mentioned it could be but there is nothing in those places. However, what's odd is there is a hand written "number" towards the back of the scope (towards the eyepiece) on the black tube that seems to be in pencil which is ABB00G and this is clearly under the clear coat that was put over the paint. The only other writing at all on the scope is Starbright Coating. I noticed on other pics of scopes like mine, there is Celestron writtten on the tube and it is written along with focal length and f/stop around the rim that holds in the glass at the front of the telescope.......there is NO writing at all on my scope. Honestly we do not even know the tubes focal length or the f/stop If anyone would be interested in seeing pics, let me know and I'll take some and post them in a reply!
  3. Still a bit devastated :(

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    2. emadmoussa

      emadmoussa

      I know the feeling...arrgh!!

    3. ronin

      ronin

      Put everything on the driveway and run the car over it all a few times. No more problem, no more anything but no problem. ;-))

    4. ehorvath

      ehorvath

      That's almost how I felt a couple days ago ronin! roflol

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