Re: About magnification (was: Astro images on micro film)

Well I'm finding that these days I prefer high magnification and a wide
field as well.....

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Julien Lecomte <julien.lecomte@No-Spam>wrote:

> 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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