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Old 10-04-2016, 08:39 AM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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I agree with Greg, unlikely to be any damage to the glass, just the coatings the affect on visual or imaging performance will be zero ...beautiful scope BTW

Know how you would have felt though ...many years ago my brand new 12" SCT slid off it's wedge and crashed, eyepiece end, to the ground (grass luckily!) hitting a tripod leg on the way....the shock made me shake and feel physically ill for hours. In the end the only damage was to the finderscope bracket and a small dent in the tripod leg. A quick recollimation and I forgot about the incident in a few days

Oh and Almost did what Marcus described, a few times, with my Starfire 6"...just managing to avoid the palm print at the very last second each time

Mike
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