Nice is in the eye of the beholder. If you read the description, the
orginal corrector was broken out. It has a replacement that has a radial
crack and a chip.
It does seem to have the 3 screw focusing system.
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Phil Chambers [ptchamb-at-svpal.org] (S.F. Bay Area - Calif. USA)
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, peter wrote:
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> Rod Molisse (I think...) has an excellent online PDF book (about 100 pages) on
> the history of Celestron and Meade cat's. I don't remember saying they had bad
> optics - actually they were far more "hand built" and some had some extra
> features like collimatable primaries, and 3-screw primary focusing systems.
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> Probably a nice scope.
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> Pete
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> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:07:57 -0800 (PST), Paul Sterngold wrote
>> Unfortunately, I have heard that the early Celestrons had
>> questionable optics. But that might not affect its collectible value.
>>
>> Paul S.
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