Got this lil' beauty a couple of days ago on a whim as I was looking around for a nice Japanese made scope (60mm f/13.3 (800mm). Got is tested on the weekend with a hybrid diagonal and my suite of 1.25" eyepieces. Great sharp lil' scope, just a lil' too small for my current observing regime (would be an excellent double star, moon and planet scope). Its much better made than the current crop of cheapie chinese made scopes (everything is well built on this scope and everything is metal including the fork mount, the finder bracket and the head that attaches the fork mount to the wooden legs).
Comes with a 5x24 finder (strangely no crosshairs and very poor eye relieve), a terrestrial T18mm eyepiece, H12.5, H8 eyepieces and a plastic encased mirror star diagonal (all 0.965", all metal and japanese made too). The interesting thing about this scope is that is has knife edge baffles all the way down its white tube (even the finder looks to have lil baffles as well).
Planning to let it go for $70AUD, and the price includes postage within Australia. Let me know if you want photo's.
Cheers,
Darren,
Brisbane
p/s: In the interest of full disclosure, I measured the diameter of the objective and it was only 55mm, not the stated 60mm and it appears to be just coated.
I have an old 60mm Japanese Yosco scope. It is wonderful to handle with its all-metal construction, precise little r&p focuser. The saying "they don't make them like this anymore" could not ring truer. For the size of the scope, the planetary detail one can pick up with it is amazing.
I am currently using a hybrid diagonal. Have been doing more testing and it seems like the dimness might be due to an internal barlow like thingy which is not sitting properly in the tube and moves around causing vignetting and light cutoff. Due to this I have decided to pull this scope from sale as I don't want to pass this on to someone knowing full well that there are issues with the OTA.....
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