odd Maksutov

[nightfisher]

I spotted this on ebay, and as i was looking for a little scope to use on a supatrak mount, plus i rather like Maks, decided to get it

Its a Soligor 90mm with a focal length of 500mm....i dont see it becoming a dedicated Luna scope, but should be fun to try it out, could put the webcam in and see what Luna avi`s produce but thinking it might work well with the DSLR.

It came with a little camera tripod foot on it, so i modded it to take a little dovetail bar, may add a finderscope later but it might dwarf the scope itself  

[paulastro]

By the look of the secondary, it looks to be about f5.6 - perhaps it was meant to be a compact telephoto lens for photography?

[Alien 13]

It looks like a scope to me the photo lens thingys have a helical focus ring, if it is around F5.6 it could give an ED80 triplet a run for its money.

Alan

[nightfisher]

It looks like a scope to me the photo lens thingys have a helical focus ring, if it is around F5.6 it could give an ED80 triplet a run for its money.

Alan

It is f5.6, will be interesting to see how it performs on 30 second subs with deep sky

[John]

Dinky little thing isn't it ? 

I seem to recall Meade and Parks (USA) having one with those specs in the past.

[Moonshane]

awww, a likkle baby Mak  cute.

[A McEwan]

Yeah, there were several versions of this available back in the late 90's and early 2000's I think. Meade, Parks, Celestron, Centon, and at least one other optical company that also made eyepieces and whose name I can't recall. They were cheap and generally came with a photographic attachment instead of a focuser, but some were bundled with a T-thread (or whatever) to 1.25" adapter that allowed the use of eyepieces/diagonals.

I never got a chance to look through one, though when I was shopping for my early telescopes they were always on my consideration list!

Ant