The Edmund.

[sbooder]

One of these little beauties has just come up on the French leboncoin selling site.  It is a Edmund Satellite Telescope made for the Moonwatch Project after Sputnik was launched.

I have always wanted one but it is a little pricey for me.

Not sure if this link can be viewed outside France but some of you may have a VPN for France, so... here it is.

[Ant]

Perfectly viewable from here

Does seem pricey to me, but I'm about as far away from an expert i these things as you can get!

Ant

[sbooder]

Oh good.  I was hoping you could all see it.  They were made in quite large numbers so I am not sure the seller is being totally up front when he says it is rare.  But I am still tempted.

Cracking pic below of them in use during Moowatch

[Peter Drew]

Not difficult to make your own, I've made several similar ones for use with camera obscuras. 

[sbooder]

Not difficult to make your own, I've made several similar ones for use with camera obscuras. 

It is more the history behind it which makes me want the Edmund one really.

[Peter Drew]

I fully understand that. Apogee made similar ones of 5" aperture for monitoring early American satellite observations.