Welcome aboard to the Orion-Telescopes users group!
Nothing even remotely astronomy related is off topic here, and almost any topic is likely to come up.
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Orion material from the Chinese Refractors group is cross-posted here courtesy of Rich Wood and David Brooks.
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Just released: The 2.25 pound, iconoclastic TeleVue Ethos 21mm 100° 2-inch 9-element Tautz-Bertele-like ocular will be shipping to customers in about three
... No if you want to study the image, without worrying about constantly moving the scope to keep the image in the eyepiece sweet spot you really do need a
... Many years ago I studied nature photography with Freeman Patterson, and one of the things I learned was to keep my equipment simple. In fact for a couple
The long drawtube of the focuser I used on the 127mm f/9 refractor vignettes when I use 2 inch eyepieces, so I use only 1.25 inch EPs at this time. I have the