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Old 04-02-2023, 03:25 PM
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I've bought two on classifieds, one non-reducing flattener and one reducing flattener, both work well. People change gear, sell stuff.

Field flatteners are usually designed/matched to a certain focal length range, ie to flatten a particular curvature of field. So if you change focal lengths, you need to change flatteners. There are a whole lot that work between 400-600mm covering many of the popular 70-90mm ED refractors. Others work around 800-1000mm covering 4-5inch photo refractors. Yours is a 132mm f7. So, in addition to the matched flattener from WO, the Televue reducer Model RFL-4087 would work on your refractor and give you an effective focal ratio of f5.5 and an effective focal length of 728mm
https://www.televue.com/engine/TV3b_...id=71&Tab=_RFL


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Originally Posted by Mokusatsu View Post
Secondly if a FF shows up in the IIS classifieds at a bargain price what is the likelihood of it working.
So, in the words of that great Australian philosopher, Mick Dundee, "Better than average!"
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