C-90 Astro, from about 1983. It's a 90mm f/11 (if memory serves) Maksutov cassegrain, .965" back, coated lens, and a gear drive equitoral mount. Not a great telescope, but good enough for a junior high school kid, and it doubled as a great telephoto lens for wildlife photography. It even got me some decent photos of the May 1984 annular eclipse -- I actually was able to get my principal and teachers to agree to reschedule a day of my 9th grade final exams so that I could travel with the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society (I believe I was the only under-18 member at the time) to a state park within the path of annularity. That was one of the highlights of high school for me.
But if I ever decide to get into it again, I'd probably get one of the newer Celestrons or Meades -- being able to auto-align is probably worth a significant amount of money for me. :)
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Date: 2006-02-25 04:38 am (UTC)But if I ever decide to get into it again, I'd probably get one of the newer Celestrons or Meades -- being able to auto-align is probably worth a significant amount of money for me. :)