Rich thank you so much for that information, sorry it took so long to reply, but I lost track of this post and just now remembered asking it ;) I will look...
I've read some really good reports about the Hyperion zoom in the SV group and on CN. Tom ... to ... it ... that ... best ... Baader ... have ... and I ... ...
Just a quick note. The zoom that started this thread is the XF eyepiece designed for the 65 spotting scope. There is also a XL zoom eyepiece designed for the...
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/solunarneo/35581372.html Picked up this link from the Vixen group. Does the 106 "new q" use a fourth lens too? I'm thinking about the...
That looks like a triplet with an additional corrector lens. Vixen seems to like putting in an additional corrector in odd places. The VC200l also has a...
Scott; I could be wrong but suspect the enquiry regarding the XF zoom was due to it's focal length range versus other zooms on the market. Most other typical...
... eyepiece designed for the 65 spotting scope. There is also a XL zoom eyepiece designed for the 80ED scope. The XL is a higher priced eyepiece and may give...
Román; Pentax spotting scopes use standard 1.25" eyepieces and the same eyepieces work fine in astronomical telescopes without special adapters. All of the...
Anyone know if the 127mm scopes are shipping? There are a few 80mm ones reviewed, I wonder if they have been compared with the Synta/Orion 80mm ED scope. Don...
Don; Per Astronomics web site it is still in "pre-order" status, ie not yet shipping. Anacortes says the status is "not available at this time". Apparently...
I have only just picked up on this question. I bought the Pentax 6.5-19 zoom for terrestial use with my Tak Sky 90, 500 mm focal length, some time ago and...
Wayne; Read here: http://www.meade.com/nasdaq/MEADE_Q4_2007_Results.pdf For the fiscal year ended 28 Feb. 2007 they had a LOSS of $17.5 Million on sales of 100...
Are they losing it to Celestron,Orion,GSO and other optical and telescope acsessory companys or are people just not buying scopes in general. I haven't heard...
... WG: Rich, you're breaking my heart--- I almost feel guilty about never buying any Meade products, but then I only like Celestron a little bit better. ...
From what I hear dealer's sales are down about 30% over the last 3 to 4 years or so. In that case it is not just Meade with problems. Look at the number of...
Wayne; Remember that helping Celestron is now actually helping Synta, already currently the world's largest scope manufacturer I believe. Of course this is not...
... WG: Oh, yeah. Gee, we want to help Synta don't we. What does that say when the biggest maker is chinese. Bid Celestronic-20 return! ... WG: Well, at...
When I see a business go under, the first thing I ask myself is "what did they do wrong". Of course, sometimes they're the victim of bad management ... things...
Jack; A good analysis I think other than I suspect that the major market for Scopetronix was "Digiscoping" afocal photography by the birding community. Based...
It's not just that quality still sells. It's that the higher income demographics have done much better these past few years than the middle and lower income...
... I'm not so sure. I volunteered for a consumer credit counseling service and found that people in an economic pinch never had any problem scraping the money...
Rich Wood wrote: Exceptions seem to be high end manufacturers such as AP and TEC. Quality still sells apparently. WG: Yes, but in such limited quantities,...
... What you have there is a simple 3 element apo with single element field flattener (single element is all you need at F8). This type of design has been...
Greg; From the Tak ads and write-up on the TNR web site the FSQ 106 (Q version) is a Petzval dual doublet design. The optics may be redesigned compared to the...
Wayne sometimes you will learn that doing a rest give you so much energy that you will do more in shorter well organised time. See Roland, hard working man,...
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