Posts Made By: John Hales

I am wondering if there is a way to repost an ad that is still in "my classifieds", I ran it in june, 2010 and would like to repost it but do not see a way to do it. I tried an "edit", but the ad did not appear in the catagory. Thanks for helping, sick of clouds in AZ.

Hello out there, I have a 4" F9 Vixen fluorite refractor made for Orion, purchased in the mid to late 90's. I would like to replace the whole back end as the Vixen "green" focuser assembly suffers from slop and the sags when I use a CCD or DSLR on it. Has anyone out there have any ideas? It is a great little scope. Thanks, John H

I haven't bought a DSLR yet but would greatly appreciate some input concerning which would be the best (after having the Astrodon filter installed). I would like a full frame size chip but those seem to be about 3000.00 or a lot more. Unless any of you can suggest a better choice, I am thinking of either the:
Canon EOS 7D, 19mpix, 22.3 X 14.9 size chip, weight 29 oz., around $1500 or less
Versus:
Canon EOS 60D, 19mpix,same size chip, weight 23 oz., around $900 or so
Money matters a bit, I would be willing to spend up to $2000 for a body. I would only use the camera for Astronomy. Thank you all very much for any help, John Hales