Posts Made By: Larry Maciag

I'm considering buying a 20-ish year old homemade scope from a friend. Back in high school days he and I did a bit of ATMing. I made a 6" Newtonian with home ground mirror. He made this 10" F 5.4 with a Coulter mirror, fiberglass tube w/ trim rings, four vane sec. mount, 9 point mirror mount and 2" focuser. All decent components but the whole thing cost him around $300.00 at the time so none of it was really "high end". Assuming the optics are still clean after all these years what is a fair price to pay? OTA only, no finder/eyepieces etc. Thanks for any input...

I'm new to astromart so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but here's the situation. I responded to an ad with an offer to buy. There was a delay of a few days then I got a message saying the item was mine. I was instructed to mail a check to the person while he is out of town and unreachable for about a week. No problem except I don't remember the exact price and I can no longer find the ad. Apparently it was deleted or expired but it doesn't show up when I search the ad archives either.The ad # was 257075. Any tips?

Thanks

Hi, I have tried repeatedly to respond to an ad placed by Jim Jingozian and the messages keep coming back as undeliverable. Anyone know him?

Hello, I have an opportunity to purchase the telescope shown in the attached photos.  It is claimed to be an Astro Physics 130mm F/6 Apochromat with a three element objective from “approximately 1985” but there are no markings present to clearly identify it. Anybody here able to identify it with some level of certainty?  Any guess at a fair market value?

Hello, I have an opportunity to purchase the telescope shown in the attached photos.  It is claimed to be an Astro Physics 130mm F/6 Apochromat with a three element objective from “approximately 1985” but there are no markings present to clearly identify it. Anybody here able to identify it with some level of certainty?  Any guess at a fair market value?

Here’s the front of the lens cell…

The only markings present are the weird backwards looking characters barely visible at the top part of this view.  Weird.