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How do you feel about the Meade Elliptical flats ?

Started by fblue, 02/25/2004 08:51PM
Posted 02/25/2004 08:51PM Opening Post
I would like to hear good or bad comments about the Elliptical flats used by Meade in their scopes.
Good quality, bad quality?
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Floyd

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Posted 03/19/2004 09:56PM #1
I bought 16"Starfinder Dob, but recently converted it to a truss. In original form, I couldn't get a good focus. I made sure collimation was accurate, and did everything to reduce vibration. When I converted the scope, I went with a 3.1 M.A sec. The primary performs excellent, so the original sec. mirror was bad. IMHO the 4.0 sec is too big for the 16.