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Old 06-06-2009, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie View Post
Sounds like a good idea Peter.
I'm looking at something with a bit of focal length for planetary work and maybe some dso stuff.
The scopes has to be light weight cause I'm getting a bit feeble with my health.
Other alternatives for me are;
Andrews has their 90mm F10 refractors on sale, but its achro
or
buy a good barlow or powermate to use on the ed80.
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Have you priced the Powermate vs a Barlow. I checked Peter's in Hong Kong and his 5x Powermate is HK1490 (A$242) vs a 3x Barlow at HK$940 (A$152). For the relatively small difference, a Barlow would be a poor choice, IMHO.
Peter
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