Celestron Super C8 Plus Telescope. By Chuck Hawks. Celestron Super C8 Plus. Illustration courtesy of Celestron International. The Super C8 Plus was the ultimate incarnation of. Celestron's famous C8 Schmidt- Cassegrain telescope (SCT). It was introduced in. Celestron was an American owned and operated. Torrance, California, USA and Alan Hale was the President of. Celestron. At the time, NASA included a C8 on every space shuttle flight. It was mounted on a precision die- cast. Manual slow motion controls and large setting circles were provided. Celestron's Starbright coatings. Super C8 Plus. A massive.
Learn more about the Celestron Super C8+ before you decide to buy. Download User Guide and Manual. On the right you can find the Celestron C8-A XLT manual. If you have any questions about your Telescope please let us know at the bottom of this page. Celestron c8-a starbright xlt (cge) 8' schmidt cassegrain optical tube assembly $ 1039.00. For 8' Skywatcher or Celestron Newton, C8 SCT Etc. An 8x. 50 right. angle, illuminated reticle, finder scope; 1. The. tripod was also black. It was a great looking scope, very professional. At the time, Celestron did all the grinding, polishing. C8 optics were. hand selected, hand figured and 1. The optics were finished to 1/1. Celestron's. metal fabrication shop turned out the optical tubes, forks and mounts. Everything. was hand assembled on the premises, and every C8 received its final collimation. Celestron's head optician just before it was boxed for. Celestron also tested all competitive scopes to ensure that the C8. It was an impressive operation, casual but. Celestron operated almost like an extended family and they. Celestron built CAT's from 9. The. Super C8 Plus was the best C8 that Celestron could build and it was the. Here is the technical information taken from the Super C8 Plus Owner's Manual: Clear. It used a worm and wheel gear system designed and built by Ed Beyers. The. 3. 59- tooth worm wheel produced nearly perfect sidereal tracking with an. The cased C8 with tripod and wedge, even. Owning a hatchback, station wagon (SUV) or. C8 system. The C8 was enough hassle to set- up that I almost never used it for. One exception was Halley's Comet. Oregon fog and drizzle miraculously cleared for just long enough to see the famous. I had about 1. 5 minutes with. Super C8 before the fog and clouds closed in again and during that time I got my best look ever at. Halley's. I wouldn't want a larger . At. least for me, the C8 marked the outer limit of portability. On the other hand, it was great for dedicated star parties. Its. set- up time was much less than the larger, clumsier, C1. C1. 4. The Tripod 5/8. The Super C8's combination of light. I had a full set of. Vixen made) Celestron Plossl oculars, which included focal lengths. At one star party, we used the Super C8 Plus to find Pluto (magnitude 1. C8's theoretical visual limit. It also provided the most impressive, high magnification, lunar views of any telescope I have ever owned. Ditto for resolving individual stars in the M1. Under favorable seeing conditions, the Super C8. Plus would perform to its rated stellar magnitude and Dawes limit. It would. visibly out perform the equivalent Meade 8. It was a. heck of a telescope. The Super C8 Plus was not perfect, of course, no telescope. For one thing, its manual RA slow motion control should have been reduction. It would have been nice if the motor drive had been. VDC instead of 1. VAC. A voltage inverter was required. The 5/8 Tripod did not incorporate an. I live in a singlewide manufactured home where storage space. C8 was hard to accommodate. It was heavy enough that I. I set it up. I wish now that I had found a way to keep the Super C8 Plus. It was. an American made classic and I have little patience for the go- to mounted scopes. Celestron C8 Overview By Ed Ting. Updated 3/4/1. 1, 3/7/1. A modern (2. 01. 0 Nex. Star version) Celestron C8. The Celestron C8 Schmidt- Cassegrain is one of the longest running continuously produced telescopes in. Questar has been around longer.) In 4. The Super C8 was an upgrade to the. C8. The SPC8 was the first equatorially- mounted. C8, using a Vixen Polaris/Super Polaris mount. The Powerstar C8 was the first DC. C8, made in response to Meade's then- new LX3 models in 1. The Ultima C8 (1. DC battery (later. V battery) sturdier mount, and upgraded. The Celestar 8 was a back- to- basics non- computerized. C8. The Nex. Star 8/se, first introduced around. The CPC 8. 00 was/is a GPS enabled C8. The Edge 8 models feature excellent. Check to see if there is any obvious. If the scope was made between 1. Halley's Comet era) be extra cautious. Conduct a quick star test. While you're doing the star test, see if. And while you're at it, see if the scope is collimated. Do the coatings look good? Is the optical tube fork mounted or rail. If it's one of the old fork mount units, do. If so, you need to check it out. Older controllers like the Accu- Trak (and. Celestar hand controllers) are becoming very rare. In any paddle- controlled scope, there will.
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