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Old 15-02-2011, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Saturnine View Post
I have an 150mm f6.5 refractor that I made, with binoviewing in mind, so that I can reach focus without the OCS, this arrangement with the 20mm wide angles gives me an 80' fov which is fine for most bright dso's
The whole idea of the barlow lens amplifier is to increase the f ratio so that you can get the light of a faster mirror or lens through the long narrow light path in the binoviewer. Using a stock binoviewer at F6.5 you may be loosing a third to a half of your 6" lens through vignetting at the mouth of the binoviewer.
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