[starfinder (Russ)]

Dear Forum members. An alert.

I've just returned from a two week holiday in China to find my beloved Tak FS128 OTA stolen. It has a number of distinguishing features, such as field rotator, a retrofitted Feather Touch microfocusser and a fair number of badly matched retouched (and unretouched) paint chips on the tube. The 50mm finderscope at the objective end has a piece of black tape installed under the three conical adjustment screws to minimise scratching. It was stored in a black plastic transporter with small wheels at one end.

I have the serial number recorded somewhere, but it is not currently to hand.

Please be on the lookout for any offers of a secondhand unit that might fit this description.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Russ