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This is the Coulter ad from the August 1988 issue of Sky and Telescope.
The 8 inch cost just $239. I find it amusing that the quote used to
sell the 8 inch is as follows. "On the moon and Jupiter, the Odyssey 8
showed as much detail as several 8 inch Schmidt-Cassegrains nearby."
The Odyssey 8 is a deep sky scope at f/4.5 yet they bragged about planitary abilities. Were they trying to say that it does well at planets even though it isn't designed to? Another ad bragged that the 8 inch could see the Cassini division on Saturn. True enough but why not talk about what it was best at? Why not talk about seeing the faint Leo triplet of galaxies? People who bought this as a planetary scope would be disappointed but it hunts down those "faint fuzzies" well enough.
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