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Old 02-06-2009, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by ghsmith45 View Post
The Baader paracorr doesn't change the focal length and is a lot cheaper that the Televue
Geoff
Pedants point of order. Paracorr is a trademark of the televue coma corrector product.

The Baader product is suited to photography use, whilst the paracorr is optimised for visual use.

The paracorr acts like a like 1.15x barlow as a side effect of its optical design. The barlow effect is not what coma correction is about, else you would just use a barlow.

I own 3 scopes. Two at f5 and one at f4.8 and I use my paracorr in all of them.
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