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Giant Focal Reducer for Large SCTs

Started by Peter Glus, 03/13/2008 05:28PM
Posted 03/13/2008 05:28PM Opening Post
I am getting a C14, and would like to determine the config for maximum FOV. I read somewhere that the "normal" f/6.3 reducers vignette the light path significantly, and the "Giant" one from Lumicon apparantly does not. My instinct is that the narrowest of either the:

1. Eyepiece Fieldstop
2. Baffle Tube Diameter
3. Reducer Lens

Will limit the actual FOV. Can anyone chime in here?
Posted 03/14/2008 05:02PM #1
The trade off is that the Lumicon (not sure they make 'em any more) is just a reducer and not a reducer-corrector like the Celestron.

Another reducer people like is the .5 from Astro-Physics.

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