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Old 24-11-2006, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by skies2
The image on faint objects is noticably dimmer using the BV, compared with mono viewing. It does give a pleasant view in other ways, described by many others before me.
The net result of splitting the beam into two eyes and internal light losses , is about 0.5 magnitude on point sources : the brain doesn't reconstruct the image to the original brightness ( no free lunches in other words).

Mark

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