About magnification (was: Astro images on micro film)

It's interesting. When I first started in this hobby (many years
ago...), I naively wanted to use high magnifications (like everybody
else...) After a few years, I wanted to use the lowest possible
magnification available to my telescope and my eye (think 7mm exit
pupil...) And now that I am getting a bit more experienced, I find
myself using higher and higher magnifications ;-) But go explain that
to somebody who's never peeked through a telescope...

Cheers!
Julien

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:49 PM, <rba@No-Spam> wrote:
>
> Every time someone asks me "so what's
> the power/magnification of your scope" I go on the usual speech about power
> not being that important on telescopes, many object in the sky are actually
> bigger than the moon to us, the important thing is being able to gather
> light, not magnification, and that "a telescope is not a microscope" :-)

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