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Old February 12th 04, 07:33 AM
Alson Wong
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Well, to me it looked like an 8" Schmidt, maybe 10". Story concept was
OK, maybe. Planetary images sucked. But I did like the sound of the
scope slewing. And talk about a bright optical tube.


The planetary images were cartoonish, but M42 was fairly good: monochrome,
with a good amount of detail and a reasonable field of view.