MWTB: 70mm/80mm short guidescope

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kochu
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Guide scope

Post by kochu »

Hi , Rich,

Since you were so good in putting a link to Album section, on my posting , I thought you were the mod -on -duty ,who cleaned up the duplicates.

As for the scope, OTA is value for money as a guide scope espectially because it weighs only 800 gms. I find my Megrez a bit too heavy on LX90 OTA /LXD 75 mount set up.

The diagonal feels heavy as it may be a glass prism type. The eye pcs are of standard quality. .The main problem I noticed was that , the focuser is bit too slack. I easily solved this problem by inserting a plastic shim .Tripod is flimsy.

Optically the images were quite bright for day time viewing. There was no chance for trying it out at night.

Kochu/20-12-05
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