Thread: [WITHDRAWN] C3 celestron Mak
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:09 PM
brian nordstrom (As avatar)
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C3 celestron Mak

Hi all and a happy new year to all .

For sale here is a real classic from the mid/late 1990's it a Celestron C90 on the EQ2 mount , sold as the 'C3'Mak , along with the C5 SCT , these are not you newer chineese made C90 , this one is made in the USA and is made for astronomy very solid and sexy .

On that its performance is very good on the brighter objects and fainter ones are seen but at 90mm dont expect C8 like views but it was not made as a light bucket . It's just a sweet little grab and go , quick look telescope that is fun to use .

Included is the standard 6x25 finder ( much better than the generic chineese ones of today ) , .965 Prism diagonal , .956 24mm , 9mm ortho and 6mm eyepieces and standard hard plastic case for the OTA , its quite cool .
I have added a Vixen dovetail to the ota and a GSO Vixen puk to the mount so they are easily seperated , the origonal way was to undo 2 bolts ( a bit of a pain )
There is also a .965 - 1 1/4 inch adaptor so you can use standard 1 1/4 inch eyepieces and on that all mine come to focus easily .

I really like this scope as its performance belies its size and on that its so easy to take outside all set up and start using within 1/4 of an hour , real neat little telescope all metal and rubber , ZERO !!! plastic anywhere.

Price ,,, ,,,, how $230 plus post for the whole setup sound ?, I really have no idea what its worth .

Thanks for looking .

Brian.
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