Any buzz on Litescopes?-sure look interesting,but website is very frustrating,obscure and well,just weird.Logo has what appears at first glance to be someone executing a hairpin turn on a dirt bike, but its actually a scope and observer in what looks to be a very uncomfortabe position."Extreme stargazing",I guess...
Litescopes
Started by dru, 12/09/2009 08:17AM
Posted 12/09/2009 08:17AM
Opening Post
Posted 12/09/2009 08:42AM
| Edited 12/09/2009 08:43AM
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Andrew Gawel said:
Any buzz on Litescopes?-sure look interesting,but website is very frustrating,obscure and well,just weird.Logo has what appears at first glance to be someone executing a hairpin turn on a dirt bike, but its actually a scope and observer in what looks to be a very uncomfortabe position."Extreme stargazing",I guess...
http://www.litescope.eu/litescope%20products.html
These are minimalist scopes designed to be as compact and as light as possible. They are very fast focal ratios, F/4 to F/3.4. The seem to all be 12 inch but that is not quite clear.
I have owned a 12.5 inch F/4.06 for close to 10 years. I have had a lot of good times with that scope but at F/4 there is big price to pay in terms of sensitivity to collimation etc. I don't recommend F/4 and under telescopes as one's first scope. The scope has the secondary on a pole, it's hard to imagine that the secondary could be stable enough to be free from vibration and hold the precise collimation necessary at those focal ratios.
To me it looks like it is designed for someone who will be carrying the scope in a backpack or for some reason requires a very compact scope. For a normal user, a more standard design with more forgiving focal ratio, a stiffer design that allows the use of a shroud seems more reasonable.
Jon
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