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    Nov 18, 2021 5 minutes

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    A vintage approach

    My solar disc images are fairly mediocre compared to many others I have seen over the years in the magazine, but it’s the method of capture that I thought might be of interest. Having a bit of an obsession with vintage optical tubery, I found myself acquiring a nice old telescope with a little history behind it. This tiny Maksutov-Cassegrain was manufactured by PZO in Poland around I960. If you went to school in East Germany during the Cold War, this is what you had to study with, and it was supplied from new with 50x and 90x eyepieces. If, however, you were schooled

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