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Old 30-08-2022, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim View Post

Yeah, this OTA has it's own story. In 2007-201x I was kind of NPZ's Ambassador & volunteer tester and they provided it to me. I visited them in Novosibirsk several times, so had a chance to personally got acquainted with Yuri Klevtsov, and developer engineers of TAL telescope series Lev Parko and Anatoly Ageev.
The factory at that time had produced a small series of 0.7 reducers/flatteners "Mk1" explicitly calculated for TAL-250K and APS-C matrices. I tested them on the sky, and then I got a new Mk2 for tests, which was a prototype (never sold, only few items produced and some distributed to amateurs).
Nice, lucky guy! Sounds like a great OTA and corrector and results seem to confirm this

Mike
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