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Old 03-11-2010, 10:31 AM
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Great to hear you are experimenting with binoviewers with a critical eye.

I'll be interested to hear how you go on DSO's without any barlows . I did the calcs once and you will probably have the equivalent of a 6" true bino once everything is factored in.

My experience with binoviewers is that they are a compact convenient trade off- the bino effect is a bit of a trick as you don't have two genuine individual light paths , so some of the binocular effect is lost - but it is really nice to use both eyes. You won't get a halo effect on Jupiter with a denk.

Mark
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