Museum pieces IMHO. Lounge-room ornaments, if you have the space. They looked the ducks nuts, but the optical quality was rather variable and I wasn’t prepared to take the risk on a dud after having a previous scope turn out to be disappointing.
The good ones are a testament to why f/15 was (and still is) nirvana for lunar& planetary types, and its a great shame long-focus refractors aren't made anymore.
It’s also a shame Unitron chose to die, rather than embrace several changes and show what could have been:
- modern ED glass types,
- 2” Crayford focussers,
- mounts with modern electric drives on both axes, with auto guider inputs and encoders.
Opportunity long lost.
Last edited by Wavytone; 17-05-2019 at 09:44 PM.
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