Thread: Bosma refractor
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Old 14-11-2009, 11:37 AM
adman (Adam)
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Originally Posted by AlexN View Post
The mak's longer focal ratio will make finding a guide star more difficult, as the same star will look much dimmer through the Mak than the refractor...
Alex

just reading your post again - isn't brightness a function of aperture rather than focal length?

I am almost the exact opposite of an optical guru, so please humour me if I've got it wrong....

Adam
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