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Originally Posted by Stonius
Mine was a crappy 60mm tasco achro The tube was metal and the eyepieces were actual glass, not like the crap you can see these days, but it was still not a great scope. So much chromatic aberration and so little aperture. But I did spend many, many hours with that scope scaring the Milkman at 3 in the morning. But eventually I got frostrated with all the things I couldn't see, and not having the $$$ for an upgrade, I found other things to fill my time. For my 30th birthday my wife bought me an 8" as a present. We're not together anymore (the wife, or that particular scope) but it was one of the best presents ever and the beginning of reinvigorating my love of the stars. I used that 8" newt to show the kids at my local primary school the transit of Venus.
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Sorry yours was 'crappy' mine was a fine scope even today fantastic lens great focuser and an aluminium tube I loved the extension tube like a duel focuser The Tasco 7TE- 5 was made by Royal Astro a Japanese maker that made fine optical instruments, I still have its bigger brother the 10TE which I still use 50x per inch was quite easy to achieve, I used to have a 80 mm WO APO (more for AP) but the Tasco 10TE was better for visual
And no CA even on Venus !