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Raining lightly here at the minute. ?
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Explore Scientific 2x Focal Extender and a Batinov mask. Sold the 3x Fri aft and the 2x replacement arrived promptly from FLO.
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Works great on my Bresser. John
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Replacement dew shield to fit my Skymax 180 from FLO. Astrozap changed the sizing of the one that used to fit without telling the dealers so the one previously sent by FLO wasn’t the right size. Anyway all sorted now and FLO included a Celestron Elements TrekCel 3300 - Torch / Power Pack free of charge to make up for the inconvieience. Good of them as the “mistake” wasn’t their fault in the first place. ? John
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Warm and sunny day again and not a sign of rain. Garden needs some rain soon. 28 tomorrow and warmer on the weekend. John
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Opticstar manual filter wheel. Wasn’t expecting much at the price but thought it would do for now. Surprisingly nice bit of kit though. Well made and moves smoothly and easily and clicks positively into each position. Great value. However the one bit I didn’t care for was the eyepiece holder. One of those types with a single screw. Had a TS one with compression ring though that screwed right on. Now will do me for a while. ? Oh yes will need something to fill it with. ? Will just have to see what the postman brings. ?
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Looks like it just might be a pier. ?
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Yes the 24 Pan just hits that sweet spot I think. ? Also really like the 26 Nagler but bigger and heavier.
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The 24 is my favourite Panoptic. ?
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c'est arrivé The ZWO ASI 290MM Mini USB 2.0 Mono Camera arrived this afternoon. Was due Monday but not to complain. ? Now just to wait for the USB hub to arrive from Amazon tomorrow. Tablet won’t power the camera so need a powered hub. John
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Still waiting for the new camera but in the meantime bits arrived for mounting the tablet on the mount. Nice CNC aluminium adjustable tablet mount. Don’t trust the cheaper plastic ones. Ball head used for adjusting the tablet to the right angle and tilt. John
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BRESSER AR-102xs/460 for daytime use?
johninderby replied to johninderby's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
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BRESSER AR-102xs/460 for daytime use?
johninderby replied to johninderby's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
Did some testing with a prism and there was CA which wasn’t there with the regular dielectric diagonal. It’s a very good prism as well. So it looks like prisims aren’t well suited to this scope. ? -
Been playing around with the AR102xs in the daytime to see how suitable it would be for nature observing as it looks like being a great little travel scope. Turns out it actually is quite usable and CA is not a real problem even though it is a fast little refractor. Took a few pics using my smartphone and they were not half bad. Every bird and cat etc seems to have abandoned the area for the afternoon so lamp posts, buildings and foliage it is. ? Will stick an erect prism in it and try a few more shots later. John
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What I’m finding is it can be used for lunar and planetary and gives pleasing views and the CA is so minor that it doesn’t bother me. So while it is naturally a wide field scope it is good enough for general observing.which is what will make it a great travel,scope as it can be used for any type of observing even if it’s not the ideal scope for everything.
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One problem with a new scope like this is that so few have actually got their hands on one that most opinions are based on supposition not fact. Yes it’s no APO but it is still a nice well,built scope with decent optics and very well priced. Lot of negative opinion on CN from those that haven’t actually looked through one. Lot of good people on CN but plenty of self appointed “experts” as well that are anything but. ? Remember a while ago reading widespread opinion on CN that the Carton 100 f/13 optics were just cheap low quality optics no better than the cheapest Chinese stuff. Then someone on CN actually took a look through a Skylight scope and found out how wrong they were.