Started with a 60mm Refractor?

"Jon Isaacs" wrote in message
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I wonder how many of you who post and lurk here started with a 60mm
refractor
or something similar? I would like to see a show of hands, lurkers can
Email
me privately...


Tasco 60mm , 700mm fl. Bought at a discount in 1962 from Buffums department
store because of a dented tube. It was delivered that Christmas into my
eager eight year old hands. I still have it today and use it for eclipse
photography. (its been to Mexico and Bolivia) After all of these years, the
only original part left is the (excellent) objective and cell. It now has a
homemade baffled tube with a unitron focuser, and lives on the side of my 4"
Jaegers refractor. Other than the Moon, my most vivid early memory of
observing with it was seeing a surface marking on a tiny but sharp Mars.

Jeff Schroeder