40 Years & Going

Do you remember the price paid Fred?

I originally bought the telescope as an Alt-Azimuth model. The price back then was 4,500.00 Drachmas ($150.00). I later ordered the equatorial mount and clock drive which cost 4,500.00 Drachmas. I remember paying 600 Drachmas for the Sun Screen and also paying 900 Drachmas for the Rotary Eyepiece Holder. The Uniclamp Camera Bracket, which allows one to place a camera on the side of the tube was $3.25 in the U.S. at the time, the Counterbalance Clamp was $4.00 in the U.S. and the 40mm eyepiece was $14.74 in the U.S. The latter three items I got from the U.S. The Herschel Solar Wedge I bought here in Athens and it cost me 480 Drachmas.

Wow! What a good memory!

4.500 drachmas was a serious amount of money back then.

I believe that the 3-inch refractor was selling for 7,300 Drachmas and that the 4-inch was going for 12,000. That is for the Alt-Azimuth models. The 4-inch phot-equatorial model with the metal pier was going for 32,000 Drachmas.

If you visit my personal album on Astrovox, you will see my receipt for the solar wedge that I discovered amongst my things some time ago.

 

-Fred