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Old 02-07-2012, 03:35 PM
brian nordstrom (As avatar)
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Oh yea , one more thing ,,,, Mak's by their design have long focal lengths and I think your 150mm Saxon has a focal length of 1800mm .
So a 10mm eyepiece will give you 180x (1800 divided by 10 = 180x ) and thats high magnification , even a 20mm eyepice is 90x (1800 divided by 20=90) and thats still way to high to start with . .
You need at least a 40mm eyepiece to give you 45x to start using easily as the higher the mag, the smaller the field of view and at 180x or even 90x thats a small chunk of the sky and its easy to get lost , frustrated and give up ...
So what eyepieces do you have ?
We will start there , ok .
Brian.
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