New WO 72mm Megrez !!!

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:11 am

eh, actually i rather have a shorter tube like ur's wor. can play with binoviewer. my initial solution to my tube too long is to stick with televues/tak, since they usually need to be racked out more. happens to reach focus with a 2" diagonal with 1cm left. but then i managed to get one of those sexy tak 1.25" diagonal, so problem solved.

back to ur prob, extension tube + flattener + focuser racked out. ur focuser have any flex under those conditions? balance prolly can be solved by adding weight to front of tube, but flex is tricky.

~MooEy~

Tachyon · Post by **Tachyon** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:55 am

I wonder how much McGill is selling?

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:55 am

...not u too. trying to get the guinness world record for owning the most amt of scopes?

~MooEy~

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:14 am

then i managed to get one of those sexy tak 1.25" diagonal, so problem solved.

The tak diagonal is nice, but sexy??? u shudn't do astro too much, observe the other "heavenly bodies" more liao

If the 72mm is equal to 80ED in term of performance (at least lunar, jupiter, and saturn), i'd be very interested. Any opinions?

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:32 am

haha, it's sexy, people tend to molest it. 72 vs 80 wor, every mm here's counts leh. but in terms of money, the 72 might be very much cheaper.

~MooEy~

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:10 pm

Don't forget the carrying bag for Megrez 72mm looks like the Ferrari one!

Oh is the SMC coating the Pentax coating??

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:36 pm

eh, at the rate WO is doing their marketing, i think very soon alot people will go after them. stm is prolly their best coatings. smc, i wonder if pentax will jump on them.

~MooEy~

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:41 pm

Oh by the way, for the Megrez 80mm, I tightened the focuser quite a lot, so there is no flex and no slip under the extension tube+ flattener+DSLR load, so the coarse knob is not really smooth, but the fine knob is still very smooth.

hommel · Post by **hommel** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:26 pm

Meng Lee wrote:Don't forget the carrying bag for Megrez 72mm looks like the Ferrari one!

Oh is the SMC coating the Pentax coating??

I think the bag is an optional purchase as mentioned in the cloudynights forum.

So when you'll buy this baby and let go your 80mm?

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:09 pm

I just ordered one from Anthony.

I had a Tak FC76 that I traded for an MN76. Although the MN76 blows the FC76 out of the water in term of performance, I still missed the finesse and portability of the Tak. The 72FD provides much better portability compared to the Tak, hopefully it doesn't lose much in performance (if it does, i'd consider a swap for owners of 80FD that want to downgrade

).

Arief