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Yukon Scout 20x50 Spotting Scope ?

Started by Doug Peterson, 09/08/2006 12:42AM
Posted 09/08/2006 12:42AM | Edited 09/09/2006 02:03AM Opening Post
Rubber armored, 50mm achromat with drawube containing 67 degree ocular at 20x, erect image. It seems impossible that for 35 bucks it could be any good, but I am the eternal optimist. Anyone looked through one? What did you see?



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Posted 09/08/2006 03:53AM | Edited 09/10/2006 04:51AM #1
I bought the 30x50 version a couple years back.
After seeing your question I found the parts, put
it back together, and gave it another try:

Pluses:
- Sharp optics
- Reasonable Airy disks on bright stars
- Just barely resolves Epsilon Lyrae components
- Weighs almost nothing
- Tripod mount
- Wide apparent field
- Erect image
- Nice multicoatings on a couple surfaces
- OK for the $

Minuses:
- Alot of uncoated sufaces, especially in eyepiece
- Contrast on moon is not too good
- No collimation adjustments on objective (but you can
unscrew the front lens cell and get some tilting action
that way).