about two years ago bought this orange tube C8 from my local club. Not sure if it was previously entered into the registry, but here are the serial numbers: 370026. Any idea what year or number made based on the serial numbers? Then I found a drive corrector on ebay in mint condition...
Serial # 856157 C8 Powerstar, but the manual says Super C8 or C8+, so I'm not actually sure which it is. I don't have the original paperwork with me but it was purchased in 1990 at American Science Center in Chicago. I noticed another C8 with very close serial purchased at the sam...
Just bought this used C8 via Cloudy Nights classifieds. Seller believes it is 15-20 years old. I removed the orange cap over the secondary mirror… no serial number. However there is a number attached to the clock drive baseplate (868788). I’m wondering if this is the actual serial numb...
Still, since we have positively identified more than one example of these Axial-Std focus examples, and that leads us to believe there may be as many as 60 or more of them, a more salient question for the registry is the precise serial numbers of the various transition stages. If there ...
Celestron has used three (or more?) formats of serial numbers. At some point in 1972, the serial numbers took on a QxxxxY format, where Q represents the yearly quarter in which the C8 was produced, xxxx is a sequential number -- presumably beginning with the start of C8 production --...
Page 64 of 67 - Celestron C8 Registry - posted in Classic Telescopes: I dont think I posted this parts-bin C-8 yet. Mid 70s orange tube OTA mated to early 80s Byers drive, black fork and base, with a deluxe wedge and Meade (gasp!) tripod. I found a com
Page 43 of 68 - Celestron C8 Registry - posted in Classic Telescopes: Does anyone here have instructions/video to lubricate the motors and the bearings ?
I notice that Joe Cepleur, scourge of this forum, has submitted the serial number from only one of his two Orange Tube C8s. I'll see that that scoundrel gets the other to you! It is currently impossibly snowed in at the summer camp, but you'll have it come spring. Thanks Joe!
I am keeping all the original parts however and will be building another C8 when I locate a OTA. Anyhow here are the numbers I will get photos when I get a better camera (you can see what is more important to me); #-808391 I couldn't find the numbers on the syhno motors, but ...
IMO, It's probably safe to assume that like the C8 you could still get a orange C5 up until they stopped making them for the 7 years that Uncle Rod claims they were no longer offered. If I read the stuff on serial numbers right, it sounds like that was the case so we can assume...