{"id":666,"date":"2021-02-19T21:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T02:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mvas.org\/mvas_wp\/?p=666"},"modified":"2021-02-19T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T02:28:07","slug":"1950s-vintage-tasco-6t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvas.org\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"1950s Vintage Tasco 6T"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mvas.org\/mvas_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tasco-6T-2-19-2021-3.jpg?resize=576%2C768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-667\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mvas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tasco-6T-2-19-2021-3.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mvas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tasco-6T-2-19-2021-3.jpg?resize=384%2C512&amp;ssl=1 384w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mvas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tasco-6T-2-19-2021-3.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption>1950s Vintage Tasco 6T<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">I can\u2019t believe that I found one of these, and in mint condition as well! This is a 1950s vintage Tasco 6T, a 50mm f\/12 refractor, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">all-metal construction,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> on a tabletop mount, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">and with a darling little peep sight<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">. My parents had one of these <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">(Sears branded) <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">and this was the first telescope that I used. Some of my earliest memories are of taking this out to Swope Park in Kansas City and using it to watch the skyline. I remember many wonderful night pointing it at everything, seeing the moon, the Pleiades, and of course Saturn. I wore the poor thing out until I accidentally dropped the lens and broke it sometime in the later half of the 1960s. I learned a lot from this little scope and it\u2019s wonderful to have to opportunity to have one almost identical to my original, and in much better condition! Now that I have a really nice set of quality 0.965\u201d eyepieces it\u2019s going to make a great little spotter. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">I had it out earlier this evening taking a peek at the moon at 20x and 33x and it looked great!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe that I found one of these, and in mint condition as well! This is a 1950s vintage Tasco 6T, a 50mm f\/12 refractor, all-metal construction, on a tabletop mount, and with a darling little peep sight. 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