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You Have to remember that the field of view is about 2-1/2 degrees with your 16 mm brandon eyepiece, In the 32 mm Brandon it is approximately 5 degrees (see page 36 in your owners manual eyepiece magnification and field of view)

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Chris,

Please note that these FOV figures that SATMAN gives are for the Questar with 10X finder (a field scope item used by birders -- I don't know if it's even available for the astro model). For the standard 3-1/2 astro model, the finder will yield closer to the following calculated FOV as per the manual (p. 39 in mine):
32mm Brandon -- 13.46 degrees -- at 3X magnification
24mm Brandon -- 10.09 degrees -- at 4X magnification
16mm Brandon -- 6.73 degrees -- at 7X magnification
12mm Brandon -- 5.05 degrees -- at 9X magnification
8mm Brandon -- 3.36 degrees -- at 13X magnification

Hope this helps clarify.

Clear Skies,

Brent

Edited by Brent (06/24/09 12:06 PM)

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