Nice ,, counter weight
,, is your Vixen Super Polaris mount you are using ok for AP ? I have one as well and wil be getting an Atik 14 CCD from Andrews soon and taking the plunge into AP soon. Thanks.
Brian.
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Originally Posted by skysurfer
The paint of my Genesis which I have since 1995 was a bit scratched due to travel use, and I resprayed it with the same ivory spray paint and it looks like new !
Despite it does not completely correct blue fringing at high power (200x) (which is improved by the SDF and NP-101) it is an excellent travel scope when mounted on a Vixen SP mount of which I have replaced the legs by lightweight aluminum profiles and cross bars which makes it a very sturdy and versatile visual and photographic scope which weighs 10kg incl mount+tripod. The heavy clamshell mount is also replaced by lightweight aluminum tube rings to mount on two points on the Vixen SP. Photos taken with it are of the same quality of Canon 'L' lenses.
One disadvantage: it does not work good with Amici prisms at high magnification as the f/5 introduces too many color errors and an Amici is designed for longer f rations.
This is a 100% crop of an 18MP raw image of a USAF1951 testsheet from 20m distance.
http://pix.northsouthsky.com/tests/genesis.jpg
Here my Genesis this week between two exposures. |