SCT / MAK Owners

[FlashDrive]

Is your SCT / MAK in this Lot .... some good reading ...!! ( Meade / Celestron / Intes / )

https://skywatch.brainiac.com/used/used_sct.pdf

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[Wavytone]

Cripes that’s slow to load... nope neither of my maks are in that list.

It’s also very dated ... looks like it was written in the 1980’s or early 90s judging from the scopes it doesn’t list, particularly the Intes maks. And the really important unicorns - the big premium maks from Intes, Ceravolo, Santel, AP, TEC clearly post-date it.

[FlashDrive]

Yeah ....didn't find mine either !!


Yes .... it is dated alright ... just a ' history ' of previous Scopes for those who own the older Scopes !!

[Wavytone]

Flash there’s probably an article worthy of CN listing the known manufacturers and models from the work by D D Maksutov, the beginnings of Questar, Celestron and Meade, listing the various Intes variants as well the likes of Santel, Ottiche Zen, Ceravolo, AP, TEC, Bosma, Bresser, Explore Scientific, Saxon (yes them too), Skywatcher and a few others.

One aspect interesting about that lot is how many have had a go at making maks, vs how few have attempted SCTs. This excludes the rebranders...

[Ukastronomer]

Loaded in .5 of a second here

Saw that years ago interesting though

[ariefm71]

I had the paperback version circa 12 years ago. I bought an MK-67 after reading the book, made a big mistake selling it.

[Hemi]

I came across this, a while back when researching an old Meade on the classifieds. Was helpful. Didn’t buy it!

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[Ukastronomer]

Never buy anything before checking if it is free on the internet

[bojan]

:thumbsup:

[raymo]

As it says on the frontispiece it was issued in 2013. It is an update on earlier issues, so much of it was almost certainly written a long time ago.
It does discuss the Intes 65/66/67 on pages 136/140. It refers to Intes
going out of business in 2006, so was definitely updated at a later date than that. It seems to conclude with models produced around the turn of the
century, and does mention the Celestron 6SE and 8SE in passing, and also mentions Celestron passing into the hands of Synta.
Anyway, lots of interesting stuff.
raymo

[dikman]

I've only read about 20 pages or so but found it very interesting, he has a very relaxed writing style. Might have to read the rest sometime.

[Wavytone]

There's also this to read.
https://www.telescopengineering.com/history/DmitriMaksutov.html
Dmitri finished optics for a 70cm just before he died and its probably the largest mak ever built.

S&T 'Gleanings Bulletin C' is also well worth a read if you can find it.

[ariefm71]

Yep, it's the 10th edition in 2013.

[Sunfish]

I looked at that too a while ago.

My old Powerstar iv c8 beast is in there. Still works.

OTA still provides a good view. Just don’t load it up ,and it has no capacity for the drive to reverse. Although I have have changed that with an onstep update that is a work in progress while the OTA relaxes in a deforked state.

Uncle Rod still posts widely on CN on all kinds of topics.

[doppler]

Yep found both in there, my old 8"f6 cave and the Dodge Dart I used to transport it to my dark site.