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Hallo all. When I first started observing as a kid I used a cheap
refractor with an equally cheap prism star diagonal. I can't recall having any problem with the reversed, upright, image when navigating by eye or using charts. After a break from astronomy of some years, I now find using a diagonal a pain in terms of navigation, with or without maps/charts - I find even the moon irritating to explore. Could it be that my brain has aged and is now less able to make the mirror-image correction as to relationships between physical features? Has anyone else here experienced this phenomenon? Luckily perhaps, I've never regularly used a scope with an inverted image, though I'm guessing the adjustment is less "difficult" compared with a mirror-image. If it turns out that I am indeed on the verge of senility :-) are any correct image star diagonals available of sufficiently good quality for astronomy? Regards, Anthony |
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