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Brings back memories!
Recently bought a refractor from a fellow IIS member. Turns out we both started out much the same way...in my case, with a cannibalised objective lens from a pair of Woolies reading glasses, drainpipe for a tube, and an EP borrowed from a microscope used in the country schoolhouse where my (step) Dad taught.
With my 2" objective, and about 6' FL, Mars was a (tiny) disk! Alas, even at F36 the CA was a bit horrendous. Good times, nonetheless. Remembered fondly nearly 70 odd years later, too.
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