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sextant telescopes


Subject: sextant telescopes
From: Hal Mueller (hal@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 13:15:20 EDT


My Astra IIIB came with a 3.5x40 telescope. Celestaire also sells a
6x30 telescope, and a zero-mag sight tube. I've read the online
description of telescope sizes
(http://www.celestaire.com/page8.html), but am curious--what are
people actually using?

It appears that the 6x30 would potentially give better accuracy for
lunar distance sights. But I've never tried to reduce a lunar
distance, let alone shoot one.

I know Ken would love to sell me both a 6x30 and a zero-map :)





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