12/12/2023 0 Comments Red tasco telescope![]() I will always remember the first time I saw Saturn (complete with rings) and Jupiter & its moons. I have very fond memories of my first ever telescope when I was a kid - and of course it was a 60mm Tasco. 965 to 1.25" converyor so I can give it a run on a modern mount with modern EPs and see how it fares but I have so much on it nit a project that will mature quickly. I keep meaning to get a calshell so I can mojnt it on an HEQ5 and a. Its optics are very good and in a more limited role with more modern EPs it would probably be cracking. I have often considered converting my unitron to a solar scope. Optically the EPs and scope are very good but probably no better than a modern achro. It all adds up to a lot of grief in actual use. Some of the Polarex EPs focus massively far apart from the others. So when you swap EPs you have to unlock the focus tube lock, manually push the tube in or out unyil its close to focus and then use the focus knob for find focus. The EPs are about as non parfocal as you could ever make them. The focuser is a horror all to itself.the focus tube extends about 12" but the focuser only has enough travel to gake the tube maybe an inch and a half. The finder is a joke, it looks tres cool but woeks about as well as a bog roll tube. John, the optics on the Unitrons are good but like most scopes of their day they are undermounted, well mine is anyway. Thank the Lord for the Chinese for bringing us quality optics at a decent price. I took my Unitron out once, never again, all the horrors of 1970s telescopes came back to life the buffs can say what they like about how brilliant the optics were but they probably like steam trains, trams, folk music and everything else that rightly died out 50 years ago. Think its the 7TE thats the one that Tasco buffs like a lot. Some of Tascos stuff from when they actually sold good hardware is quite colectible. Back in the day it was common practice for the scope to come with a range of accessories and eyepieces and back then the EP choice was somewhat limited.i was browing an old catalogue the other day and I wonder where the gearheads would be back then.a choice of a Kelner or a Ramsden, maybe a Plossl if you were flush cos they were primo and widefield and most scopes didnt come with them.Įven my Unitron from that period was pnly supplied with a single symmetrical ( plossl ) and that was only if you were good, ate all your greens, went to bed on time and had flipping great wadges of cash for the 'de luxe' model Of course back when they were god they were also pricey. There was a rime when they were ace, made in Japan and they did some beautiful hardware.
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