You're right. It's a Mak with a tremendous central obstruction--about 90%!
What could you possibly see with that large a CO?
Peter
> From: "Richard Ozer" <rozer@No-Spam>
> Reply-To: Richard Ozer <rozer@No-Spam>, The Astronomy Connection
> <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:46:02 -0800
> To: "The Astronomy Connection" <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> Subject: Re: [TAC] A Large Aperture Very Transportable Refractor
>
> That's my hat! Someone stole my hat!
>
> Actually, it looks like a very short Maksutov. Did you see the central
> obstruction in that thing?
>
> RO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Natscher" <natscher@No-Spam>
> To: "[TAC]" <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:04 PM
> Subject: [TAC] A Large Aperture Very Transportable Refractor
>
>
> While surfing around on the E-Bay, I bumped into this item for auction---"a
> night vision telescope", E-bay item #2974438369. Take a look at it. It's
> about the shortest larger aperture refractor that I've ever seen. Talk about
> portability! Rich N., check it out. I bet even Astro-Physics can't make one
> this short.
>
> Peter Natscher
> Monterey
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2974438369&category=2995
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