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Oh and how many of you know Neil Armstrong won the biggest foot contest ? PS : Don't wash the floor tiles with water for 10 million years please .

You and @Kon are just throwing up reports !!

Or maybe Paragon misspelled 🤪 ? But seriously Paracor ? Louis , I couldn't find the the 35mm eyepiece in the TS website . Are they still sold by TS ?

Do you starhop ? If not you don't need a finder because a RDF is more than enough to do alignment of your go-to .

I set up my 8" dob around same time ! There were a lot of features along the terminator . But the one that stood out was the "eyes", formed by craters Godin and Agrippa . The illumination was perfect as the eyes seemed as if they were sketchily looking at me !

It's not exactly that the F5 scope will be brighter than the F6 . In this equation , the F5 is a 6" and the F6 a 8" . So yes if the same FL eyepiece is used , the F5 will be brighter , but with a lesser magnification . If equal magnification is used , the F6 will be brighter . For comparison , either the magnification should be same or the exit pupil should be same .

Better than the princely sum paid for the scope for sure !

Sorry for converting this to an equipment thread , but do you know the weight of the Noblex ?

They seem to have 2 types , one for spotting scopes and one for astro ..

Hi from Hosur ! And as @Cornelius Varley says , this is a dead thread ..

So would you be interested in the DeLite Neil 😁 ?

Don't worry mate 😭

That could also be due to the refractor Vs reflector thing !

It totally depends on the seperation , the ∆ mag of the pair ( or more ) and seeing . The lower the ∆ mag , the lower the magnification required to split . Fine examples are Sirius and Izar .Also the lower the seperation , lower the magnification required to split . Albireo and Zeta UMa are good examples . At last the seeing . You may have heard Sirius , Izar are sometimes impossible to split for some . Allan Wade in Australia has split Sirius with his TV-76 . Even Thomas Jensen split Sirius with magnification of ≈64 . But some reports say Sirius b impossible at 300×+ in 8"+ scopes . Why ? Seeing - you can have the best double star scope and eyepieces but if you don't have the seeing , you are going home 😉 . Also as Stu mentioned , collimation , cooling etc are also important .

For astro or other uses ?

No problem Jiggy 😁 , I thought you used the zoom with the Barlow for powers above your 4.5mm ... I like it that you still use your BHZ , even when you own a set of BMs 👍 .

Don't you find the BHZ as redundant Jiggy ?

EAA : If the mic was a real one fixed in front of the singer in the screen , I wouldn't have stopped laughing in my life 😂 .

Should I get into the ark folks ? 😱 😂

Control , gentleman 🤣

Who is Dinesh Stu ? 🤣

Do you have any focus issues with this setup @niallk ?

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