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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Look at how thick the steel casing is. That must weigh a ton.
I wonder what it was used for? It looks military in nature.
Greg.
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Yes it does. And you'll have seen that the secondary is not positioned in the usual way - it is offset - and the primary seems to be odd-shaped as well. And there does not seem to be any visible focusing mechanism. The label says it is an IR scope - and one assumes that means infra-red but could mean anything really. I haven't been able to find anything more about it - which is what it is probably military in origin.
But it struck me that in a money-no-object world, it might be fun to play with in trying to image very distant red-shifted galaxies and the like.
Peter