Whats the worst scope you had?

An Orion "SpaceProbe" Newt, not the ST version. Couldn't get pinpoint stars, planets were mush.

Turns out they put spherical figured mirrors in them! And Orion Customer Service tried to tell me it was diffraction limited!

James Adams

Hello,

Without a doubt the worse scope and the worse buying experience of a scope I have had was my 8" Dynamax Cat. It was so terrible that I would have trouble listing all the things it did poorly.

Fortunately, a burglar stole it. As I've said before, if he had been an astronomer he would have broken back into my house and returned it.

I was a Criterion supporter because my first scope, a 4" Dynascope, was my introduction to the stars when I was a young teenager. It still bothers me that the company had fallen to the point where they produced that junk.

Clear skies.

Tom B.

I had a Celestron C-90, I bought it as a Camera lens and it got me into the whole Astronomy hobby, in a bad way... when it got cold, the lens barrel would refuse to turn. When it got warm the image would shift so bad during focusing there was no hope for high mag viewing at all. Add into the fact that it cost as much as a MUCH larger newt, but accepted .965 eyepieces...
SHEESH, What was I thinking?

Tabletop 76 was my single worst piece of optical equipment.

My worst mount was a CG5.

regards
Greg N