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Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC (slightly): Optimum Rich Fiel
From: Todd Gross
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Thu Dec 07 03:43:26 1995

>1) the baffling on the LX200 is the major contributor to vignetting outside
>the 1.5" central circle, and
>2) re: swing thru fork arms -- the person I spoke to at Lumicon
>unfortunately was not helpful in this regard even though Lumicon does sell a
>lot of LX200s. I guess I need to get the name of someone really in the know
>at Lumicon!

>In the spirit of the holidays -- thanks to all for all the invaluable
>advice... and to all (always) a good night! Let's see, if Todd can program
>Santa's reindeer into his satellite-tracking software for the night of the
>24th... :-)) ..George

Cute!

Ummm... there is significant loss of image clarity in the f/6.3 focal reducer
-corrector (celestron) with the 35mm Panoptic. Anyone who claims otherwise
should just check an out of focus star image, and see what happens when they
put it towards the edge of field. It makes my stomach roll just thinking about
it.

I have no experience with the Lumicon, but I had heard on this mail list that
it will not allow for an easy swing through the fork arms. It would be nice if
this could be clarified! Great thread.. this is on topic!

-Todd
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