Moon through the old blue tube with barely any coating

Let's see the last time I looked through this was in 1977., the year we built it.

This image is not anywhere near the quality it should be, had the telescope been stored properly from the old days. Perhaps much of the coating would have been gone anyway due to the cold winter temperatures in the observatory.

The view through this (and it's not even optically aligned as it should be) were better than in this photo.

Basically any telescope you would purchase, even a cheap store bought would give a better eyepiece view than the photo below.


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