Hello folk's, I finally found a very usable objective for my unitron. I bought the entire telescope to get it, along with a very usable Equatorial mount. I got it from the same website as I got my Unitron, the shopgoodwill.com website. The telescope was the Meade 289S. I have'nt changed them out yet but checked out the view's with the scope and was very acceptable.
I looked at Jupiter and it looked like a diamond bracelet with no weird colors like you get on some of the cheaper lenses, the brighter stars also looked great. Everything was very contrasty. It also came with 3 EP's and a diagonal, and nontracking slomo controls on the mount. It did'nt have the tripod which was listed in the manual as being a hardwood tripod, darn it. I got it for $11.00, the mount alone would be worth much more than that let alone a good objective.
I've been building a telescope for a friend so have'nt had time to change the glass out but all I lack on the mount is the alt. bearing's then I'm gonna have my unitron out on Saturday night.
Whoever owned the telescope used what seemed like 50 weight oil on the focuser on the Meade. I wiped off what I could without taking the focuser off. I was afraid that it would run down inside and get on my objective, it was almost dripping.
But I did get a decent clone finally. Just wanted you to know that I had'nt given up and it will be used a lot.
Cheer's, Darrell
I looked at Jupiter and it looked like a diamond bracelet with no weird colors like you get on some of the cheaper lenses, the brighter stars also looked great. Everything was very contrasty. It also came with 3 EP's and a diagonal, and nontracking slomo controls on the mount. It did'nt have the tripod which was listed in the manual as being a hardwood tripod, darn it. I got it for $11.00, the mount alone would be worth much more than that let alone a good objective.
I've been building a telescope for a friend so have'nt had time to change the glass out but all I lack on the mount is the alt. bearing's then I'm gonna have my unitron out on Saturday night.
Whoever owned the telescope used what seemed like 50 weight oil on the focuser on the Meade. I wiped off what I could without taking the focuser off. I was afraid that it would run down inside and get on my objective, it was almost dripping.
But I did get a decent clone finally. Just wanted you to know that I had'nt given up and it will be used a lot.
Cheer's, Darrell
