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Do you use an erecting prism diagonal?

PatrickO

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Highburymark
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Baader T2 amici prism diagonal is as good - or better - quality than most diagonals out there and shows a non-reversed image. On a bright star at high magnifications you can just perceive a tiny spike

Stu
Stu

I think a few do, who are sensitive to orientation but I think most prefer the higher quality of a mirror or standard prism (ie not correct orientation). The corrected prisms generally do show artefac

josefk
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+1 for a “right way up right way round” view being quite satisfying at lower magnifications and especially full disk magnifications. For me it preserves a nice relationship to naked eye views, binocul

paulastro

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1 hour ago, Stu said:

It’s funny, every day when I look at my handsome visage in the mirror, I don’t think it looks false 🤪

I’d rather see maximum detail personally but if slightly less but the right way round suits you, that’s fine of course.

Happily I have a beard so I dont have to look at my aging features in a mirror every day. 🙂

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On 05/04/2024 at 14:00, Stu said:

It’s funny, every day when I look at my handsome visage in the mirror, I don’t think it looks false 🤪

I’d rather see maximum detail personally but if slightly less but the right way round suits you, that’s fine of course.

A famous portrait painter once had a very dissatisfied customer who strongly insisted that the likeness was false. She had a more than averagely asymmetrical face and the artist realized that she was used to a mirrored view of herself, so he altered the painting to a mirrored view and she was satisfied.

I'd much rather not have the moon mirrored but put up with it because the rather basic erecting prisms I've tried really clobbered the image resolution. I've never tried a good one.

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