Johannesburg Centre, Astronomical Society of Southern Africa


For Sale

  1. 6-inch Achromatic Refractor – 96 inch focal length. Made by Irving & Son, London.
    With personal details of optical tests done by the British Astronomical Assoc.
    Equatorially mounted on cast-iron pier.
    With 6 eyepieces & right-angle prism and finder scope.
  2. 5-inch Achromatic Refractor. F15. Unmounted, but cradle supplied.
  3. 24-inch Perspex Celestial Globe with a stand and setting circles. Terrestrial globe inside. Printed Constellation names.
  4. 16-inch Perspex Terrestrial Globe. Transparent, with continents marked.
  5. 16" black globe. Can be used as a spherical blackboard.
  6. 11 ¾-inch Pyrex mirror. F10, in aluminium cell. With diagonal and optical flat, including eyepiece assembly and rack-and-pinion focuser. Figured by Danie Overbeek.
  7. 2-inch Refractor in tube.
  8. 2-inch Refractor. Moonwatch telescope with special Erfle focusing eyepiece, extra wide angle.
  9. Carl Zeiss erecting prism for Terrestrial viewing.
  10. Heavy duty Theodolite - 2-inch lens & mountin & tripod.
  11. Stereoscopic Microscope with 2 eyepieces.
  12. Heavy duty Tank Gunsight - 2-inch lens with illuminated crosshairs.
  13. Photographic camera tripod.
  14. Assortment of Achromatic 2-inch lenses & prisms & filters.
  15. Aluminium cast cell for 6-inch mirror.
  16. Various Astronomical books.

Please contact: Dr. Neil Williams on 011 615-2162 to view.


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