There was something rather odd, strange about this telescope upon its arrival. I took only one snapshot prior to its renovation, through one of the bundled eyepieces inserted into the provided star-mirror diagonal, and during the day...
That is what was so odd. It's a 70mm f/4.3 achromat, but I can't really see any false-colour within that image.
After a time, I had learned that this particular configuration of an achromat, and quite probably many others if not all of them, arrived as a 30mm f/10 instead.
Hmm, what do we have here...
A baffle, a field-stop in this instance, and utter madness in the factory having installed it; or rather in having slyly done so? It was easy enough to remove...
Then, to make the stopping-down even worse, the draw-tube of the focusser is much too long, strangling the entering light...
Worse still, the draw-tube contained a baffle of its very own. I could kick myself for not having photographed it, prior to removing it...
Then, on top of that, just inside the focusser's housing, a wall arose round the draw-tube's run...
I had cut that back, too. I had also cut the draw-tube down...
I was all set, and to enjoy a full 70mm aperture at my disposal, or so I had thought.