KONUS PERSEO after 35 years

[Fedele]

KONUS PERSEO after 35 years
At the age of about 12, my mother and my uncles gave me my first REAL telescope.
A great little giant who opened the windows to the Universe for me. Made in Japan, today I was able to partially restore it. Needs an intervention to the lenses that I have to collimate, since as a boy I disassembled it several times to clean it with ethyl alcohol 
Tonight, the sky suddenly opened up in the clouds, giving me an observation window with both the Baby-Mu and the little PERSEO.
I observed the moon through an Adriano Lolli COMA adapter, which adapts the 1.25 "eyepieces to 0.96" of the original focuser of the "ancient" sacred relic.
With a 25 mm Ploss Televue, despite a slight chromatism (surprisingly most of which deriving from a not perfect colimation) the little moon was greatly engraved. Beautiful. rich in detail.
I also used an FF 12 mm eyepiece, which denoted a greater chromatism (but always very acceptable) and finally I dared with the supreme Abbe MC 6mm Takahashi, which still returned a usable image, with only a very slight graininess of the details and a coma on the peaks of the craters.
I started crying reliving those nights over 35 years ago.
A short walk among the stars, with very good focused stellar images, a short star test showing Airy discs (in extra) heavily etched in an image deformed by uncoupling. I'll take him to some expert soon for a comprehensive resuscitation.
Then I wanted to dare, making the little old man savor the breeze of the modern era.
Go of ASI224 with Astronomik ProPlanet 742 IR-pass filter and ASICAP.
I shot some videos of which I quickly processed two, one for the ASi to rpimary little focus and the other through Barlow TeleVue 2x. Videos of a few frames (since we are still waiting for the frames from the east), processed with PIPP & Astrosurface.

thanks Mom if you can hear me from up there

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[Kon]

Nice story behind the telescope and it still seems to perform very well after all these years.

[Fedele]

24.03.2021
Konus Perseo (1986) 60/415
Asi 224, IR.Cut
ASIStudio, Astrosurface