There was no motor so I had to manually turn it to the right location in the sky. I taught myself about how to align it with Polaris and then use the right ascension and declination in some celestial object charts to find them. As it turns out, it had a really really good equatorial mount on that model and it sounds like later products were not as good. It had a 900mm focal length and an equatorial mount. It was a very basic Tasco 851TR telescope. I was so amazed at being able to see planets like Saturn and Jupiter and the Horsehead Nebula in Orion's belt. With some renewed interest, I decided to get my old telescope out and set it up to see what I could see in the night sky. Which was the early fate of my first telescope.Ībout 25 years ago, during Summer break before my last year of college, I found myself living in a fairly remote town in Washington and a little bit bored.
Many of these kits ended up in the land of forgotten toys. Music, astronomy, computers, chemistry, and electronics. When I was much younger, my parents did their best to get me things for Christmas that might spark an interest in various things. A brief history of my interest in astronomy.
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