What was your first "real" scope?
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Life took me away from the hobby for a long time. When I returned my first serious scope was a Celestron SE8. It was a surprise to see how much the equipment had changed and what you could get for a reasonable amount of money.
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Then a Sears discovery 70mm refractor.
Then the Meade 6" Starfinder, similar to this:
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Most of the time I tell folks THIS ws my first real telescope. An 8" Celestron
This image was taken July 1991 when I was headed to Mexico (by truck) to experience my first total Solar Eclipse. My transmission blew up while visiting a friend in Flagstaff so I ended up stranded there for a week, waiting on parts. Missed the total eclipse but watched the partial from the parking lot at the Lowell Observatory that can barely be seen in the background.
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Re: What was your first "real" scope?
But my first "real" telescope was a Coulter Odyssey II 17.5 inch dobsonian (see image below - not my scope though). Huge and heavy, even for a strapping young man, it was a lot to move around. Why it never occurred to me to put wheel-barrow handles on it I'll never know. I guess I wasn't too dynamic of a thinker! Anyway, while that behemoth structure is long gone, the optics (refigured) live on in the truss
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Telescopes: Orion XT8i, Zhumell Z12
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As for first "real" scope, different people will choose a different scope! My wife bought me an early1980's Astroscan and then I bought a Sky Research 8"
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My first scope was a Unitron Model 114, 60mm,
I've also included a December 1959 Unitron advertisement from Sky and Telescope magazine.
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Many neighbors got their first look at Jupiter and the 4 moons. Those H series 0.965 EPs were not the greatest, but I did a lot of scanning with that bad boy.
Being a shared scope, it became horribly mis-treated over the years.I miss it!
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I swapped out the
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