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Telescope Articles
William Optics Star 71 Astrograph First Impressions
Aug 16 2014 03:05 PM |
rford322
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My first impression is excellent. The WO Star 71 has a wide, well illuminated, flat field of view, exactly what I was looking for.
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How To Avoid The Agony When Buying Your First Telescope
Dec 21 2013 06:33 AM |
RealSorin
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Buying your first telescope can quickly become a daunting task when faced with so many choices and unfamiliar terms. Hopefully this article simplifies the process a bit for you.
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The South Cave Collimator System
Dec 17 2009 09:31 AM |
peter clark
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The story starts back in April 2006 when the black plastic front cover of my 8” Wise Newtonian telescope had developed a crack, so I
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A Super Altazimuth Mount
Dec 11 2009 06:42 AM |
Rkw150
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Leonard, who has won several merit awards at Riverside Telescope Makers Convention, offered to build me the mount a little over a year ago
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Keep On Buying
Dec 09 2009 08:07 AM |
Guest
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I've had seven telescopes so far, and by far the absolute best with ease of operation, quick mounting , perfectly clear and bright optics was the Celestron CPC1100
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My Telescopes
Dec 08 2009 08:36 AM |
Guest
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I've owned everything from a forl mounted C-14 with a 5 & 8" Celestron Schmidt Camera mounted on top, to a C-90 spotting scope
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My "First Telescope": the Great Lick Refractor
Sep 18 2009 05:10 AM |
mwedel
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When I was 12, a friend brought a telescope catalog to school. It was from Celestron. It was the first time I'd ever heard of a Schmidt-Cassegrain. I borrowed it, kept it for a couple of weeks, read it cover to cover until I had large swaths of it memorized.
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A New Refractor Concept: "The Wall Hypochromatic Refractor"
Sep 01 2009 06:24 AM |
Crayfordjon
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During research into retrofocally corrected refractor systems, I noted an effect during experiments with an optical bench cum telescope apparatus, that is, when the correcting flint element was removed from the train, the image recovery lenses still formed a back focus image which was smaller but seemed well corrected for colour, in fact it was a better correction than was being had with the flint lens in situ for that particular array
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Broke Back Solutions
Aug 26 2009 06:39 AM |
tomharri
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I'm old, weak and broken. Here is my solution to easy portability
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My Telescope Building Adventure Continues
Nov 07 2008 01:46 AM |
Guest
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First, I would like to thank Cloudy Nights for offering to post my musings on telescope building on their excellent website
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