The Duckadang Celestron Orange C14
I'm chasing information about the old (20+ years) orange-tube C14 that used to be housed at the Duckadang Lions' Observatory in SE Qld - near the site of the Qld Astrofest. I understand that before that, it was with the ASNSW (until the early 90s). It's been decomissioned and I now have the opportunity to put it back into service but it has several 'issues' and I'm hoping someone in IIS will remember the scope or, better still, have worked on it.
It's well out of collimation and perhaps worse. I understand that the secondary and also the corrector plate may be out of index with the primary after a 'clean' in the past 8 years. I also see that both mirror locking bolts have been removed and the holes seemingly bogged up. That might be because some after-market anti-flop device has been installed, or it might be for some other reason.
Does anyone know about these things, or able to give me any information about this grand old scope. Optically it looks pretty darn good, subject to collimation and perhaps other alignments, and ought to be able to be returned to active service with a bit of TLC.
It is shown it the attachments sitting on an NEQ6Pro.
Peter.
Last edited by pmrid; 30-04-2010 at 07:03 AM.
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