I just got one of these things the other day. I will write a review of sorts when I get the time. I share with you the following.
You need a wide angle lens to view it up close
It is 13 cm long (just under 5.5") and 4.4cm across (1 3/4").
It dwarfs my other plossels, but weighs about the same as my 9.7mm meade with barlow, and less than the 25mm plossel with barlow.
The seeing was truly horrid tonight and planets move like the wind but the views were really quite promising. Could Saturn look that big?
I look forward to testing it a lot.
cheers all
, and no doubt there was that kidney bean effect. As somebody else said - took about 30 seconds to get used to it. I pulled up and old chair and sat on the back and relaxed. Occasionally anoying floaters or other debris would swim in and out of view. The main thing is too ignore them and they go away. The terminator was fantastic and the individual craters were amazing. I will try it out again later on Jupiter and Mars. Meanwhile the edges do not seem to blur or go out of focus which is nice (but the tube is F8). Gosh if I had a telescope that could track properly without acting like a windvane!...That new scope cannot come soon enough!
