JSO NSC-12B with Mizar AR-1 mount

Japan Special Optics 5" SC OTA mounted on a Mizar AR-1 mount. The scope is in excellent condition, built like a tank. The mount is in excellent condition except three 1/4" holes are drilled in the top of bosses where you attach the legs. This was done by the original owner to mount on a pier. Also the casting the counterweight shaft screws into has channel lock bites on it. The Mizar is a precision "photo capable" eq mount with a DC quarts drive on the RA. Comes with the very precise optional polar scope and illuminator. Views are APO refractor like, tight round stars with a velvet black background. The only way you would know you were looking through a SCT is if you compared it side by side with an APO and you would notice a little less contrast in the JSO (due to the CO).

SCT OTA:
125mm clear aperture, 1200mm focal length (F9.6)
pyrex 130mm primary, BK7 corrector plate
tight focuser with numbered focus indicator (no mirror shift)
Nylon compression ring 1-1/4" visual back

Mount:
Sturdy wooden tripod with accessory tray, height adjustable
DC quartz RA drive with battery pack and hand controller for guiding
Illuminated polar finder scope
Slow motion controls for DEC and RA, RA has ckutch for motor use
Precision engraved setting circles

Accs:
Baader solar filters for main scope and finder, finder filter screws right into finder, no chance of falling or blowing off
JSO rotatable T adapter
Nippon adjustable .965 eyepiece projection adapter
JSO K40 .965 eyepiece (for eyepiece projection photography)
JSO K25 1-1/4" eyepiece
JSO red velvet lined hard case
Original manuals for OTA and Mount, plus a sales flyer for the JSO and an english copy of the polar scope instructions.

Scope sold new in 1985 for $585 plus more for the accessories.
The mount sold new in 1985 for $595 plus a couple hundred for the drive and polar scope.

Asking $1200 plus shipping or best offer.
Paypal please add 3%
UPS ground with insurance to zone 2 from my house (SLC Utah) is $62.

Thanks,
Steve

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