Cheapest Place To Buy a 80ED Refractor

Those dark spikes are due to lens spacers?! That's a new one on me! See, you
learn something new every day.
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--- Dave
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"Ed T" wrote in message
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"David Nakamoto" wrote in message
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Nice images Ed, and they show that these inexpensive scopes can generate
decent images.

But where did the dark spikes come from in the second image?

I found the link on the Yahoo refractors group. Roland C. said they were
likely the result of the lens spacers extending into the light path, perhaps
exacerbated by a bit of turned down edge.

Regards, Ed T.

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:53:52 GMT, "David Nakamoto"
wrote:

I tend to agree. Perhaps when there wasn't a heavy supplier of a variety of
cheap but fairly good quality refractors, those that might wish for one would
have been pushed into getting a high-end refractor instead. Now that there is a
choice, the sales for the high-enders has probably slackened off a bit, but only
for those that were forced to consider them when the buyers were really thinking
medium to low-priced instruments.

Or, the person said to themselves; "Well, I can buy the Orion and a
Canon 20D DSLR body and start imaging, or just the TV-85." Gee, what
a hard choice!
-Rich

"RichA" wrote in message


Or, the person said to themselves; "Well, I can buy the Orion and a
Canon 20D DSLR body and start imaging, or just the TV-85." Gee, what
a hard choice!

If you've got money the choices get a lot easier g.

Ed T.