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Old 12-04-2014, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Renato1 View Post
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But the absolute worst telescope I've ever seen was two years the Celestron First Scope came out when some friends spent several hundred dollars on a telescope to look at ships in the bay, and asked me to have a look at it, as something was wrong. The telescope was a Tasco Galaxsee 114mm reflector with a tube length half the size of what one usually sees, 500mm focal length from memory. They lent it to me, the images of stars were junk, I collimated it, the images were still junk. I made up little aperture masks which should have shown me several pin point dots of the stars, but instead showed huge flares/ little comet shapes aimed at the edge of the field....
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Just for you Renato. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tasco-Tel...item338d4f3262

The dust obviously adds to the value.
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