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Subject: Re:JMI NGF-S
From: Frank Loch
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon Feb 26 04:27:40 1996

> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:25:48 -0800
> To: mapug@shore.net
> From: billa@znet.com (Bill Arnett)
> Subject: Re:JMI NGF-S
> Reply-to: mapug@shore.net

> How would you compare the JMI vs Meade motorized focusers? All I know is
> that the JMI will eliminate focus shift. On a 12" it would seem that the
> JMI focuser would also make it impossible to swing the eyepiece thru the
> forks.
>
> ---
> Bill Arnett "Science is a way of trying
> San Jose, CA USA not to fool yourself." -- Feynman
> billa@zNet.com <URL:http://www.seds.org/billa/>
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>
Bill -- I'm using the NGF-S on my 12" lx200, and many eyepieces will
go through the forks. My largest one, a TV 22mm panoptic just makes
it through. The extended barrell length of the 22mm (including lens
cap is 3.5 "). Obviously most combinations with barlows will not go.

Frank Loch -- floch@postoffice.ptd.net