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Posts posted by racprops
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Interesting...I cannot show you me at the age of about 12/13 when I sold greeting cards to my North Las Vegas newspaper customers to earn praises and I got my very first telescope: A very crappy Gilbert 2 inch reflector with a metal tube with NO lenses or any kind for a Finder, plastic eyepiece and a flimsy tripod with a clamped ball socket mount.
Some 7 to 10 Years later I got a Tasco 4 inch and made my own mount.
45 years later I found what I had dreamed of having a Critertion 6 inch...
And another 15/20 years later like now I am fixing up a used C8.
Sorry but I am just a sometime viewer...
Rich
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First can I ask for a list of a couple of these suggestions for good focuser that work well and are robust?
And some where on this site I read a discussion about the changing focus leanth with the mirror focus system changing the C8s focus leanth when used, can you point me to that thread?? I ask as your changing the focuser suggests your aware of it.
Thanks.
Rich
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Thanks, I did kind of think you were UK based...but to day with the internet we are all next door to one and another...
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I need a Celestron C8 telescope main Lens cap.
Thanks.
Rich
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Forgive a newbie questions…
This is an upgrade to my childhood wanted got as an older adult (sadly) Criterion 6 inch Newtonian.
But One of the clock motors does not run, so this is a two part question:
So a 12 drive system would be better that a 112 A/C up convertor.
I could also use a source for used parts if there is one or more.
Thanks.
Rich
SHOW US A PIC OF YOURSELF WITH YOUR FIRST TELESCOPE
in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
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As you might see I am a bit of a builder, here is what I have done with my newest scope the C8.
I am using a Criterion Pedestal mount modifided with a second tube to allow height adjustments so I can use it as terrestrial viewing with a 6.3 focus reducer and as a astronomy telescope.
Rich