A couple of saturday nights ago it was very clear apart from a little smoke haze from a burn off just south of us so I decided to set up both scopes for a little shootout on the Moon , Mars , Alpha Centarui and M42 .
Both scopes were set up about an hour before full dark with the 102mm f10 ( fl 1000mm ) on my wife's Mizar mount all sitting on a sturdy Celestron 2 inch s/s tripod .
The LP 110 f6 ( fl 660mm ) was on my Vixen SP all sitting on the solid Meade HD field tripod .
So as you can see vibrations were not going to add any aberrations at all as both these setup's are super solid .
Eyepieces used were all TV's , Plossls , Panoptics , Radians and Naglers giving magnifications ranging from 200x - 40x in the 102mm and
200x -37x in the 110mm .
2 inch diagonals used were a nice Bintel 99% dielectric Mirror in the 102mm achro and a WO 2 inch 99% dieletric CF in the 110 APO , so any problems here would be invisable to the eye and this is a totally visual shootout
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Here are a few photos of the scopes settling down before the battle's begun
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As we see , eyepieces , diagonals , mounts and seeing wont add to any problems seen to the eye ,,,, it's going to be all about the optics , cool as .
So lets see if 8mm in diameter , 340mm in fl and the use of good quality ED glass makes any real difference ?? lets go ,,,
More to follow and comments are really welcome , as always
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Brian.