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droid
rocketman

Reged: 08/29/04

Loc: Conneaut, Ohio

Re: Original orange tube Comet Catcher new

[Re: droid]
#5612809 - 01/08/13 10:16 PM Attachment (6 downloads)

I did find one thing today ,that may be of interest to comet catcher owners, the dew zapper strap for my 120 refractor, is a good fit for the comet catcher too.Its an Orion brand dew zapper strap.And its orange to boot. lol

Edited by droid (01/09/13 07:03 AM)

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droid
rocketman

Reged: 08/29/04

Loc: Conneaut, Ohio

Re: Original orange tube Comet Catcher new

[Re: droid]
#5622416 - 01/14/13 10:22 AM

over in the best of files , in the reflector forums, there is a thread for collimating Schmidt newtonians, if I had found it sooner it would have explained a lot of what I was seeing. Im gonna post here for those of us who own these scopes, hope its ok.

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2263887/page...

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StarStuff1
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 04/01/07

Loc: South of the Mason-Dixon Line

Re: Original orange tube Comet Catcher new

[Re: droid]
#5622469 - 01/14/13 11:04 AM Attachment (4 downloads)

Oddly enough, I have had 3 of these scopes and never have had to collimate a single one. One was new and, of course, 2 were used. The only major prob was dew on the corrector. But, easily solved:

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droid
rocketman

Reged: 08/29/04

Loc: Conneaut, Ohio

Re: Original orange tube Comet Catcher new