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Old 19-06-2005, 09:50 PM
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what is a focal reducer

A focal reducer acts in the opposite way to a barlow lens. It reduces the apparent focal length of a telescopes objective giving lower magnification and hence a wider field of view. This is useful in photography when you are using a large focal length telescope like a schmidt cassegrain and wish to get a larger field of view .
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