Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840


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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
No other scope I know of beats it for the aperture. Mine will handle up
to 200x. Very little color even though its not claimed to be apochromat.
Mine is actually a Telemator which has a finder on the OTA and has an AC
powered drive (TM Mount).

I have a spare OTA that I acquired in a package deal to get some other
equipement. I am wanting to sell this. Drop me an e-mail if interested.

astaire@gte.net

Mark

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
This is the finest refractor of its aperture in my view. At high power, it delivers perfect text-book diffraction patterns. It is quick and easy to set up, very robust and solid and extremely 'user-friendly'.

I also own a high-quality 8.5" Newtonian on a driven equatorial, but I estimate that I use the Telementor five times as often, simply because it gives so much pleasure beyond its tiny aperture.

I have started a group for users of these fine instruments. The URL is:
http://www.egroups.com/group/telementor

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Exemplary optical performance and a splendid mount. only the fiddlesome design of the slow-motions and the awkward M44 fitting detract from a superb quality instrument.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
I have this scope since 2 weeks. It works very good especialy in planetary.
Nebula view is very nice. My FS60C doesn't perform as good as the telementor
on planetary. The only problem with the telementor is that there isn't fluorite
in the optic and the view of stars and is under a takahashi FS60C.
It's a very nice refractor, the mount is very good. The focuser is not easy
to use at X200. Yes you can sometimes push the magnification to X250...... so
you can imagine how good is the optic :)
William.Guyot@univ-bpclermont.fr

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
I picked up this telescope for less than I paid for my Short Tube 80 and without doubt is the best value scope I've ever purchased. Beautifully finished with a lovely wooden tripod and very capable equatorial mount and even came supplied with 2 Zeiss eyepieces which are worth the purchase price alone. Takes very high magnification considering it's aperture and shows very little false colour even on the brightest objects, on Saturn it showed none whatsoever. Absolutely awesome on double stars, though it's aperture does limit your targets. Perfect diffraction pattern. Basically as good as you can get at this aperture and probably betters many larger scopes. Couldn't be happier with the performance of this scope and I'd give it a higher mark than 10 if I could.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Where can you buy Zeiss APQ APOs?

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Optica: Excelente calidad de imagenes. Los trabajos a realizar con planetas se facilitan por la definición y estabilidad del objeto. Al tener otro telescopio, como un reflector de 8´´ a f/6 hasta el publico se da cuenta de la nitidez que da el refractor.

Montura:Corresponde al tamaño del objetivo.Es robusta y muestra como deben ser las monturas del resto de equipos.

ES un ZEISS

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
A good mae has a telementor. A grest wee scope which has rigid design and excellent optics. I also own an APQ 100/1000which is NLA. Like other Zeiss refractors the viewing and optical parameters is very impressive if not unequaled for the scopes size and class.
It is a stunning scope. I am in the process of buying an older used telementor after viewing in a friends. as a small portable high performance well mounted scope.

Also as an investment as these wee scopes will not go down in value. I missed three sales where the scope was either snapped up instantly as soon as the ad hit or the Auction price rose well over $1000 US.

God only knows what the APQ 's would sell for if one became available. I guess the 100's would go for well over$5K and the 130 and a50's for a veritable fortune. I'll hang onto mine for a while yet. The problem with parting with a Zeiss scope is missing the optical quality.
The telementor's are a great concept and very well made. I would predict they would outperform many 80 mm refractors on planets. on mars(2001) the telementor kept up with the APQ100/1000 in moderate seeing. It shows that a smaller aperture holds up well on planets and doubles on an average night.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
I have now owned an older (Helical focus with turret) telementor.

The mount and tripod which I have re oiled/waxed e.t.c is a joy to use.

The turret is awesome. As i have a full set od zeiss orthos 4,6,8,10,12.5,16 and 25. and a H 40 it is great to change power.

The optics of my telementor are exceptional. Essentially perfect.

On the moon and Jupiter and Saturn I reckon I get better definition and razor sharp views more akin to a 3 inch top notch apochromat than a 2.6 inch achromat. I reckon f-13.3 helops here. I use my scope to observe the sun and use a 43 South solar filter made from baader astrosolar filter material. It is stunningly sharp with not a TRACE OS SECONDARY COLOUR IN BEST FOCUS.

I have used the scope daily since owning it. It is so easy to oick the whole thing and use it. I also own a APQ 100/1000 mm zeiss which is significantly larger and harder to set. The quality and construction is similar. The telementor is for me a perfect wee scope for a quick look but with optics that are without peer for apertures under 70 mm. Is is also surprising how good the telementor works with double stars and emmision and planetary nebula. It really is a superb quality instrument made to a standard you just do not see any more unless you buy takahashi or astrophysics. Mine is at least 30 years old but has been well maintained and is as good as the day it left the factory.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
C'est minuscule. This pathetic little telescope approaches the
least of aperture. But it's exquisite optics and amazing craftmanship
make me give it a 9.

daSentinel.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
What is there to say? This is tbe best small achromat ever made. It easily beats my Japanese 3 inch refractor in all departments, even light grasp. It is a sheer pleasure to use.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
This Former East German Telescope is a real joy to use. Not only the optics is excellent for the purposes it was build(school/amateur telescope) but also the mount is outstanding. It has smooth focusing, solid mechanics, and very important, tube vibrations while guiding, or just when touching the telescope, are almost absent. It can be used with great success for manual guiding of attached photographic equipment. It is an example how an entry level telescope must be build!

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Extraordinary: a perfect star-test, allied to a capability of over 100X per inch with ease. Portable and rigid, and wonderful construction quality (perhaps just a little East-European in it's somewhat utilitarian design, but who cares?). Using this small aperture refractor with it's Zeiss Huyghenian eyepieces (0.965) makes me question a lot of the "improvements" we've seen in the last 30 years in eyepiece and lens design. No one who looks through one of these beauties walks away unimpressed. I will NEVER sell this one! a perfect 10.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
I give the Telementor a solid 10 overall based on the optical tube assembly alone (since I can't give a higher rating). The mount can be a bit quirky but it can also be left to the collectors who simply have to have everything Zeiss. Better mounts are available and it is not difficult to adpat the tube to another mount, the Vixen GP/GP-DX for example.

I have owned three Telemtor/Telemator scopes. My first was a Telmator 2 late model (includes a finder and an AC motor driven equatorial mount) and with it I acquired a full set of the aus Jena .965" eyepieces i.e., 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.5, 16, and 25mm orthoscopic eyepieces (there are also several .965" aus Jena Zeiss Huygens eyepieces that should not be looked down on. While the fields of view of the Huygens may be a bit narrower, their optical quality is excellent. The H-16 and H-25 come to mind).

That was back in the late 1980s. I sold that first Telemator setup in the mid 1990s and have regretted it since. I now own a pair of Telementor optical tube assemblies, one is the early Telementor 1 model (Helical focuser at the back end of the scope) and the second is an early Telementor 2 model (uses an internal system to focus wherein the objective assembly rides in its own frame within the tube so that the objective and internal frame assembly slides inside, back and forth, within the outer main tube. This allows the eyepiece/diagonal to remain in a fixed position at the rear of the tube). My preference is for the early Telementor 1 with helical focuser.

Optically the Telementor is without peer, but then would we expect anything less from Zeiss. I doubt seriously if you'll ever find anyone who says they got a poor performing Zeiss Telementor. I do not believe such a thing exists. Zeiss had very high standards and if a scope didn't meet those it obviously didn't get out the door.

Unfortunately the Telementor (as with most anything East German Zeiss, otherwise also known as aus Jena Zeiss) are now in the realm of collector items. What's unfortunate about that is they will slowly be tucked away in collectors collections and fewer will see the dark of night at star parties (for fear of damage), or turn up for sale at anything approaching a reasonable price. These telescopes were made to be used, and used they should be. Optics this good are at their best under the stars so that we can all appreciate true optical quality. Thankfully they can still be found at reasonable prices... but don't wait to long to go looking for one.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Excellent telescope.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Incredible optics. Performs like a 4" refractor. Routinely holds 100X per inch. Seems impervious to "seeing" conditions. Best of the (40 or so) telescopes I have ever owned.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Great telescope. The optics are incredible. For planetary this is the best. Two caveats: weight and small aperture.

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Zeiss Jena Telementor C63/840
Best Ever 60mm telescope

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