Celestron C8 8" f/10

5.0 Celestron Super C8

Extremely well made, excellent optics, accurate and quiet Byers drive

Unfortunately no longer made to this high quality

I love Classic telescopes so when the opportunity to pick up this rare orange tube Classic Super C8 I could not resist. The telescope is in immaculate condition. It has the Byers drive system and is so cool because there is a window in the drive base that you can see the gears when the scope is tracking via a back-lit dim orange light!! This scope also came with a JMI mototrak V with dec and focus motors. The scope looks like it has been extremely well taken care of. The original accessories included a made in Japan 7mm ortho, 26mm Silvertop eyepiece and prism diagonal. Compared to my two large CATS, this one is so light to just carry outside.

First light was last week. I heard that Celestron at the time (1984) provided a certificate for optical quality on these scopes and std High transmission coatings with starbrite a new option!! The coatings and the mirror look flawless, the 8x50mm RA helical focusing finder is sharp and comfortable, even the objective lens has 3 foil spacers!! Ok turned the scope on and it was so quiet did not even hear a thing. It tracked flawlessly thru the mototrak V drive corrector. Being seated I had some unbelievable crisp images of Jupiter!! I felt in control with every function of the scope in my hand controller of the JMI corrector. Dec , RA, and focusing all easily controlled. I was taken aback by the image quality of this CAT. I am very fortunate to now own 3 Celestron CATS from yesteryear all made in the USA, all three with extremely high quality optics. If you ever get a chance to pick up a Super C8...go for it