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Is this a Flourite?
I started a thread in beginners AP about my stumbling first AP efforts with an 80mm Vixen I picked up cheaply secondhand off gumtree some three years ago.
The telescope and its mount (unworkable) had had obvious hard previous lives. The telescope had fungus issues which I did my best to carefully clean.
Among some of the supportive comments from fellow icers were that the scope was a "keeper" and that I may have secured a bargain despite its hard previous life.
I did indeed keep the Vixen, but never really did get any firm opinion as to what it was. An achromat, an ED or as someone has now suggested to me recently possibly a flourite?
There is just not any identification on the tube and wording on some stickers has just faded off.
So I am putting up some more images of the scope in the hope that someone can shed some light on it, as I would now really like to know for certain.
My original post was "Critique requested" in beginners astrophotograpy about three years ago.
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