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Old 01-10-2006, 10:08 PM
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l agree with the above comments completely, this comment may or may not be relevant to you so take it for what you will.
Through my limited experience with telescopes and optics most relatively new amateurs and l suspect some seasoned amateurs don't know the difference between an ordinary image and an image produced by a telescope that is set up to work at it's maximum potential.
When l first recieved my Meade without any prior experience l looked through the ep and thought wow this is amazing, after viewing through a few others l thought that the images in mine looked soft in comparison and so took it to be serviced and thereby get it to work at it's full potential, after getting it back my impression was how much better is this, sharper images and much better contrast.
l was satisfied until a couple of nights ago when a generous experienced person kindly offered to have a look at my scope and give their appraisal, after the comment "average" and a thorough re-collimation the views are outstanding, my point being unless you know what you're chasing you will never get it, you have to know how to make your scope work for you and not expect a scope to just work.
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