At 7:24 PM -0700 4/17/98, steve sanacore wrote:
>Michael;
>
>I had a 7" Mak and I remember always getting great views with my 40mm
>SuperWide eyepiece. I wonder if you used this eyepiece without the
>reducer and compare, you would find the reducer really doesn't increase
>the scopes field of veiw...

That is certainly my experience with a 35mm Panoptic and 12" LX200. Using
the f/6.3 focal reducer just causes vignetting. (Well, OK, it might
increase the FOV a little, but the vignetted view is so ugly that it isn't
worth it.)

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