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Lumicon Straight-thru finders

Started by luca, 04/04/2002 11:11PM
Posted 04/04/2002 11:11PM Opening Post
Does anybody know what this finders look like. From the description they seem to be just simple short tube refractors that allow 1.25 inchc lenses, barlows, and other accessories. However I'm confused as the maximum magnification the suggest on their website 30X. Using 40X per inch of aperture those scopes should allow 80X for the 50mm and at least 120X for the 80mm (unless their optics are worse than a walmart bought telescope). Also taking my assumptions as correct as anyone used this finders as guidescopes for imaging? and if so how well did they perform? Any picture of these scopes would be welcomed as they don't have one on their website.

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Luca