MARIO SPADA TELESCOPE

[Cren]

Hello,

I looking for any info about Mario Spada Telescope, 8" mirror.

It is on sale from local guy, in a working condition.

Please see the attached pics.

Thank you.

Edited July 9, 2020 by Cren
misspelling

[Robindonne]

You mean local guy!

Edited July 9, 2020 by Robindonne

[Fozzie]

8 minutes ago, Robindonne said:

How you know he’s gay?

I suspect that's a typo and they mean "local guy".... 

[Cren]

Sorry, yes GUY...

[tooth_dr]

I though he was talking about Dafydd Thomas for a minute lol.

[Cosmic Geoff]

You might learn more from a Google search... seems to be a very rare make.  I suspect the optics are made elsewhere, unless we accept that the technology to figure SCT mirrors and corrector plates exists in Verona.

How old is it, and what exactly do the mount electronics do? That's what I'd be asking.

How does the price asked compare with a used Celestron C8 SE, with similar optics?

Nowadays, one has reservations about using a wedge mount for a SCT.  It is reckoned difficult to do a polar alignment, and now we have GoTo mounts, an equatorial mount is only really needed for long exposure deep space astrophotography, a task for which an 8" f10 SCT is  not particularly suited, especially not at the beginner level.

[John]

Google threw this up:

http://www.specola.altervista.org/alterpages/files/BrochureTelescopiMARIOSPADA1991.pdf

Looks like it might be a heavily modified Celestron SCT but I've never heard of them until now.

 

[Cosmic Geoff]

8 minutes ago, John said:

http://www.specola.altervista.org/alterpages/files/BrochureTelescopiMARIOSPADA1991.pdf

The weight of the OTA is astonishing. I wonder how one would carry the outfit outside. No wonder the brochure shows a tri-pier option with wheels.