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I ordered May 29, order # 20970. I received it today. I'm in Schaumburg, IL (northwest suburb of Chicago). My order was for two scopes.

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Hmm, this right here indicates to me that they are not shipping in the order the orders were taken. While I understand the fact that other countries may get theirs in different orders, I don't understand how an order number of 20k will beat out my order number of 600ish when I'm right down the road from this guy. As far as I can see, no reason an order of 2 scopes should get priority either (I ordered 6 which I think is an easy to ship box). I'm a bit discouraged by this and the fact that there is no way to verify they didn't lose my order or anything of the sort.

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I ordered May 29, order # 20970. I received it today. I'm in Schaumburg, IL (northwest suburb of Chicago). My order was for two scopes.

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My original order number was 87 which I had to redo because of a glitch in their payment system. The new order number was 11340. I order 4 scopes. I then received an email from Rick on 6/25/09 stating I should receive my order within two weeks. I then had another email exchange with Rick on 07/09/09 in which I indicated I was starting to get a little nervous and he responded that a lot people that received the 6/25 email probably felt the same way and that I should receive my order within the week. So far, nothing. Not providing tracking information puts the customer at a distinct disadvantage. They should at a bare minimum have a facility on their website where the customer can enter their order number and see if it shipped yet. I would like to know if anybody with order number 1-100(the group that had to redo)has received any scopes yet.

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Looking for the stars!
Mike C.

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Now I've found the full instructions on the Galileoscope site, I'd better have another look at that barlow - I think I don't have the lenses in correct order. The Plossl is fine, but the view with the added barlow is terrible at the edges.

By the way, to use a diagonal, try a barlow between the focusser and the diagonal to allow focus to be reached. I made it work with a 3x Televue barlow. I've arranged to get a short 2x barlow and will experiment further this weekend.

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It's not possible to place them incorrectly, both sides of the 2 pieces have the same shape as far as I can tell.

Here's what I get:


In other words, to fully utilize the 2" glass you'll need to get a new barlow. A small inconvenience for the 15USD price tag.

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Telescopes: NexStar 8SE, 90ED f/5.5 doublet, Galileoscope
Accessories: Hyperion 36mm, GSO 32mm, E-lux 25mm, Hyperion 8mm,
DBK 41AU02.AS, 2x Barlow, 0.63x Focal Reducer, Solar Filter, UHC Filter
My (astro-)photos can be found on flickr.

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Zoeff, the pictorial instructions seem to show that the two lenses do have to go in the holder in the right order. Picture 45 however shows a different shape to one of the lenses than is described in the other instruction notes. I have to pull mine apart and get out my magnifying glass to identify them and insert then as per the instructions. I hope I find that they were back to front.

By the way, I'm visually seeing the edge distortion I believe I can see in your afocal shot.

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I'm pretty sure it's the no-text one I posted above.

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Hmm, they were the wrong way around according to those steps. However, I'm not seeing that much difference. Here's for comparison:

My old image:


Swapped lenses and made sure they were in the correct orientation:


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Telescopes: NexStar 8SE, 90ED f/5.5 doublet, Galileoscope
Accessories: Hyperion 36mm, GSO 32mm, E-lux 25mm, Hyperion 8mm,
DBK 41AU02.AS, 2x Barlow, 0.63x Focal Reducer, Solar Filter, UHC Filter
My (astro-)photos can be found on flickr.

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Working on a GalileoScope Imaging Program and kit.

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Nice! Thanks for the update.

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Telescopes: NexStar 8SE, 90ED f/5.5 doublet, Galileoscope
Accessories: Hyperion 36mm, GSO 32mm, E-lux 25mm, Hyperion 8mm,
DBK 41AU02.AS, 2x Barlow, 0.63x Focal Reducer, Solar Filter, UHC Filter
My (astro-)photos can be found on flickr.

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Zoeff, just checking - you have put the field stop into the plossl eyepiece? So the rough edge of field with the barlow in place is not the absence of the field stop?

Your 25x image looks clean at the edge, so I presume it is in place. Thanks Eric

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I think I'll lay out until they get this ordering fiasco straightened out.

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I don't think that it's still an ordering fiasco at this point. More of a shipping fiasco...

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Orion SkyQuest XT6 Classic
Sears 4-6333 60mm f/15 refractor
50mm f/10 "Galileoscope" refractor w/Daisy Electronic Point Sight finder
TeleVue Plossls: 32mm, 11mm
Orion Sirius Plossls: 25mm, 20mm, 10mm
Astro-Tech Paradigm 15mm
Celestron Ultima 2x barlow
Orion LaserMate Deluxe + Meade 126 2x barlow
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Yes, I had the thinner lens around the wrong way - the one I have marked with an "*" on the figure. I've now swapped it around but cannot test for a while.

I note the two sets of instructions describe this lens differently - the words/picture version says flat one side, convex the other. The picture only version of instructions shows concave one side and convex the other. Mine was flat one side and convex the other.

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