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Old 17-11-2012, 02:28 PM
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Thanks Peter.
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Old 17-11-2012, 03:35 PM
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Kevin I would not worry at all about this problem ,,,,
Andrews will refund , replace or change this scope to another one of better quality without a second thought , I think they would rather know a problem exists than a customer not being 100% satisified ( bad press ) . .
As I said it wont be a problem they are a good company to deal with in all ways .
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Old 17-11-2012, 05:24 PM
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No I'm not worried Brian. I think they are good people to deal with.

I'm just very disappointed that a scope so beautifully made has bad optics. The finish on the scope itself looks like a piece of fine polished furniture. I'm not used to that sort of quality. I'm more used to building my own reflectors which are more practical than beautiful. For instance I build my focusers out of PVC pipe fittings from the recycle centre.

Perhaps my next scope should be more ugly and have a sloppy focuser. As long as it has good optics.
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Old 17-11-2012, 06:09 PM
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The Megrez 88 I have has very little CA, no purple fringe visually, but it does have to be carefully focused.
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Old 17-11-2012, 07:57 PM
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The Megrez 88 I have has very little CA, no purple fringe visually, but it does have to be carefully focused.
Maybe LP used the left-over sub standard lenses in the LP90 after the Megrez 88 was discontinued.
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Old 17-11-2012, 08:12 PM
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You might have a point there Laurie , as it seems to much of a coincidence that 2 of the last 3 of these were woefully sub standard , yours and Kevins , when mine was quite good and as said its bad that the lenses are so bad when the build quakity is really very good ? .
Luke at Andrews told me they only had 4 of these when I got mine and mine was the 1st one sold .( I wonder who got the 4th one ? )
Food for thought mate .
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Old 17-11-2012, 10:01 PM
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Its such a shame the optics are not up to scratch in your scope Kevin ( and Laurie's ) when you look at this photo I just found of the LP90 that I had , to see the build quality , baffeling and coatings in this photo and this scope performed very well , this is a real shame .
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Old 17-11-2012, 11:14 PM
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I noticed the same thing Brian. The baffling and coatings look very nice.

Mine was the last one. The demo model actually.
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Old 17-11-2012, 11:44 PM
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Hi Kevin,

Thought you might like to see the same field through an f6 Stellarvue 70 ED(420mm FL) and Canon 60Da.
Obviously comparing apples and oranges, but the interesting feature I find is the rainbow which is quite pronounced in my image, even though there is very little colour error. There is some voilet halo evident but that is more due to my poor focus(the focuser is fubar, ruined by previous owner)

I think the rainbow is more an internal reflection problem rather than the lens. I am only guessing tho. I will eventually get some Protostar flocking in there to see if it makes a change.

I've made it to the same scale so you can do a side-by-side comparison. Please try to ignore the trailing
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Old 18-11-2012, 12:13 AM
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Mmm thanks Simon. The Kson rainbow flares there too. If you ever find a way to get rid of the flare let me know.
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