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Originally Posted by DarkKnight
And Sil, in the future please try get your facts right before you decide to waffle on about things you seem to know little about
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I couldn't agree more, Ken. ?This is Ben's thread, his question. I'm trying to give him precise facts without you muddying up the waters on this subject even further. Deal with it. Yes green lasers are more visible than red lasers to the naked eye. Its why sensors are bayered with two greens to one red and one blue for each pixel and it ALL comes back to the properties of our eyes.
Either way the right tool for BOTH of your going of your descriptions of what you want to do is a Red Dot Finder or Telrad (if you're going to whinge about not seeing a red dot on a star. Sound like you're arguing to justify you wanting to play with lasers which is an irresponsible attitude especially on a family friendly forum.
Lasers are handy for educators pointing out stars on location for a group of students, and observatories use them to create an artificial star by ionising the atmosphere to take calibration data for the adaptive optics system its NOT required for amateur astrophotography.
Feel free to start a new topic instead of hijacking and wasting others with irrelevance.