On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 6:51:56 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:52:30 UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 10:51:34 AM UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 06:16:53 UTC+1, RichA wrote:

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Posted by "He who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

With fairly little effort and a few dollars worth of contact paper and metallic spray paint one could take almost any old telescope and get much the same effect, although it wouldn't be the work of a famous artist.

There was some Brit outfit a while back "retrofitting" decent telescopes in brass and charging a notable premium.

Perhaps this? :

http://moonrakertelescopes.co.uk/custom-builds.html

This is cool:

http://www.wetherellart.co.uk/pages/astronomy.html

Dorpat Refractor as "Steampunk" ? :

https://10minuteastronomy.wordpress....d-observatory/