Acquired a telescope, not sure if it's bust

Well, what type of telescope is it, clueless??

There's the refractor



There's the Newton Reflector


Then there's the Schmidt cassegrain Telescope [Reflector]

 

Okay, then one end should be closed and the other end should have what is called a Spider to which is attached, on the inside of the Telescope tube, a small mirror facing down towards the end of the tube. Also the position for the eyepiece should be at the top end of the front of the tube. Does that compare with your scope?

 

Okay, next question!!.......does it have an eyepiece something like this in place or is there just an empty hole.?


Oh, and is it mounted on a tripod or is it just the scope...........and does it have a brand/model name on it.??

 

Okay, so the scope has the eyepiece position but it has no eyepiece in it, and you can poke your finger into it..........but don't!! So there's a very good chance of the scope being a runner and able to work. However, there are a few things you should know about a Newtonian type. Firstly, they have two mirrors,

the primary mirror is at the bottom of the tube and the light goes into the front end of the tube to the primary mirror and then back up the tube to the second, smaller, mirror which reflects that light up through the eyepiece position up into the eyepiece and thence into your eye. Those mirrors will need aligning [called collimating] to give a sharp image into the eye and you will have to learn how to do that.......it's fairly easy.
Have you found a brand name or model name and is it on a tripod.??

 

Okay, I think this is it

They come in different colours of course. Anyway, there's good news and bad news. Tasco's is not known for quality scopes but having read a few reviews a lot of astronomers have fond views of them as beginners scopes. Here's a proposal if you send me your address, via pm, I'll send you a Meade 26mm 1.25 inch eye piece to fit your scope. The eyepiece is a spare and I rarely use it anymore. Sorry for the delay in replying but I've got rare clear skies tonight and I've trying to get the actual GOTO Mount on the scope accurately aligned with the Polaris Star [True North] which I can't see from my Observatory. I've been using a method called Drift alignment and I think that, tonight, I've near enough "cracked" it.