New First Light Celebration!
It didn't take long to set up the new Acuter 60mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope and commemorate First Light - about 5 minutes time in all. Wednesday, May 11, 2022, on the day of arrival, marks new First Light for the minuscule-in-size but massive-in-power telescope.
Left: setting together, the larger Celestron Nexstar 6SE at left and the cute Acuter 2.4-inch Maksutov. The powerful and ultimately cute Acuter 60mm Maksy is the "cat's pajamas and pulchritudinous."
It didn't take long to set up the new Acuter 60mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope and commemorate First Light - about 5 minutes time in all. Wednesday, May 11, 2022, on the day of arrival, marks new First Light for the minuscule-in-size but massive-in-power telescope.
The flowers seen above, purchased online in Beijing China, commemorate the special event.
The telescope was used with the supplied 20mm eyepiece and gave a spectacular high resolution view. Using the stock tripod and components, the scope was set on the new Observatory Platform indoors and looking through window glass, focused on a very distant building located by the mountains. The 60mm (2.4-inch diameter) aperture view resolution was incredible, showing no aberrations, excellent color, and detail on individual building bricks. For a comparison, the Celestron Nexstar 6SE, known also to be a high resolution telescope was set up with a high quality 25mm eyepiece and pointed on the same building. The views were practically identical with the 6SE showing an image that was ever-so-slightly brighter but not higher in resolution.
