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Old 13-07-2008, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by g__day View Post
I like Celestron's Carbon Fibre tubes - means focus once set almost never has to be reset due to temperature variations.
From last comparison i read, the case is carbon fibre only, but everything else inside (Chasis) that holds ALL your components are metal, and thus does nothing to stop temp from changing focus.

I managed to find also from ATSCOPE, were they sell the RCOS scopes, a line about the same thing :

"Note: some SCT manufacturers are now using carbon fibre outer tubes, but still fully mount and move their mirrors along an aluminium baffle tube, totally negating any benefits of a carbon composite tube assembly."

Theo.

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