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Old 27-04-2012, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by bmitchell82 View Post
Okay now im lost!

On one hand people are saying that commercially made optics are just fine as all this PV measurements are just a load of horse whooharr

On the other hand people are saying that the higher quality the mirror the better. Better images, Better magnification etc etc
Shades of gray.

The last 13% of any engineered system seeking "perfection" starts to cost serious $ with not a whole lot of performance return.

Hi-Fi's, cars, etc. all fall in that sort of category.

On a good night (i.e great seeing) average optics will satisfy most punters.

Excellent optics will return good images most nights (in short , it takes crappy seeing to unsettle them)

But, on a really good night (i.e superb seeing) excellent optics will also give you images as good as mother nature allows....

....A place you can never get to if the imaging system is already hamstrung by rough, poorly corrected or short-cut designed optics.

Question is: do you want to pay to capture those rare, albeit sublime, moments??

Proof?? the M104 image I took some years ago with great optics in superb seeing. The link is here
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