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I have an old early-model no-name (guess in which country it was made!) 80mm f/9 doublet refactor for sale. I've only ever used it as a guidescope, for which it worked very nicely. I'm not selling the Losmandy rings I used for it, but there are a pair of cheap rings which I have which fit and would work if somebody wanted them.

The 'scope works well and I upgraded the focuser to a GSO 10:1 2-inch a couple of years ago, up from the 1.25-inch ordinary rack & pinion in order to use it for visual observing (which I've never done - I have too many other telescopes). With a 2-inch eyepiece this give great low power views. However, careful examination of the Airy disc shows that the optics are not perfectly collimated - it shows slight asymmetry. However, being a modern, cheap telescope there is no way to collimate it - I have tried and failed. However, this mis-collimation would only be noticeable under high power viewing. As a guidescope (all I ever intended to use it for) and low-medium power visual use it works just fine.

It also has a poor quality (in my opinion) 5x finder. It works, but it's got quite thick, non-illuminated crosshairs.

I'm after $150 (plus postage) - mainly because of the GSO focuser upgrade. I'd happily sell the GSO focuser separately (for $50 + postage) and return the original focuser to the system (which is all I used for about 90% of it's life) and is quite fine to use anyway. I'd then sell the 'scope for $100 + postage. Whoever asks for whichever option gets to make the decision.

- Steve