I understand from your recent e-mail that you have questions about the AOL« Newsgroups. The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in February 2005. For...

Sure enough, when the other poster described some kind of aperture stop on the Trashco reflector in their ad, I figured they pointed the scope toward the...

How about the spot diagrams for the TMB 100mm f8 posted on the TMB apo group? It looks like this scope could be a kind of benchmark since it keeps the colours...

This has to be the worst concept in eyepieces since the 0.96 Huygens. They all have terrible off-axis imagery. Not only that, some of them suffer from...

Take a standard Plossl of quality, like a TV. They cost about $100.00. But how good are the lenses in them? If you figure that the raw material costs just...

I know it sounds a bit outlandish, but what if they did this? Television is the most effective way to attract customers, hence it's cost. But even advertising...

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They may look "pretty" but they are still silly. Why compromise the resolution of a good refractor with those things? -Rich

Is 32kb as large as they are going to be, even full rez? That's pretty tiny. -Rich

Meade is apparently selling huge numbers of these cameras. It's number #1 at Anacortes. So where are the kind of images that they portray on...

Well, after seeing the images produced by amateurs from this inexpensive camera, I can honestly say one thing; If someone is thinking about buying one, save up...

They are simply going to line some lawyers pockets and they'll lose anyway. Is there a red squirrel up the mountain, or are the native groups worried...

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That is was created to give jobs to starving Russian scientists so they wouldn't go build atom bombs for the Arabs. Even if it's not true, it's clever!

Provided you didn't have atmospheric distortion to contend with, what would be the maximum magnification pratical with a diffractionless lens? What would be...

They produce something for astronomy with a liquid lens? This technology seems about to take off for cameras. Maybe eyepieces with tunable characteristics that...

It seems reasonable that there will be a similar price drop on the 100mm ED Orion when Skywatcher brings theirs out. That could mean a $750 100mm apo. For...

Someone may have mentioned this, but there are a few of these on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=28181&item=3839970838&rd=1