Let's go DEEP!

Archer Sully (archer@No-Spam)
Fri, 28 Apr 1999 09:58:13 -0600

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Gralak" <ray@No-Spam>
>
> Anyway, here it is... a picture of *my* actual scope according to Brad
Erhorn.
> He's just waiting for the optics to arrive back from the coater:
>
> http://rcopticalsystems.com/10specs.html
>

Beautiful instrument, Ray. RC optical really knows what they are doing.
I'm looking forward to seeing your first images. Are you getting the
motorized secondary?

> BTW, with the hyperbolic optics this scope has should make it an excellent
> visual (deep-sky/planetary) scope too.
>

What will make it an excellent visual scope are the better than 1/4 wave
optics.
Many would dismiss it out of hand based on the 40% obstruction. They would
of course, be wrong.

-- archer


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