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From: Bill Morris
Date: 2010 Dec 3, 00:06 -0800
Gary, you wrote
<Thinking about your theory that they repaired a telescope that had a broken fork, would that have made sense considering that these telescopes could not have been that expensive to begin with, why not simply replace it?>
Hmmm. See Figures 9.14 to 9.16 in "The Nautical Sextant" and consider the fine objective lens too, thought by some to have been made by Zeiss. I would have said rather that no expense had been spared in the construction of the SNO-T and its telescope. Bear in mind too that spares might simply not have been available, or that the repair may have been done by a previous, non-USSR, owner.
Bill Morris
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