Hi Paul, I didn't say I could see structure with the Fuji's, I merely said that they were the best binos for the money. I used to track satellites with my Astro Physics 105 traveler. I used an alt azm mount and tracked manually. I found the setup to work but was very uncomfortable to view with one eye, with my body in a contorted position pass after pass. If I would have put that scope on a parallelogram, everything would have been different. That's a great idea! Although looking through a single eye piece for any length of time made me look like Captain Ahab. The views that I got through my AP104 were stunning, as is your 101, but I found the view through twin Apochromatic bino tubes to be unbelievable. I wasn't knocking the telescope, for they definitely have there place. I was knocking the ETX line. I just think for manually tracking something that's moving, you are better off with a stabilized set of binos, be it on a parallelogram bino mount or some other tripod mount with an articulating arm of sorts. This to me is a very comfortable and enjoyable way to view the heavens and satellites. By the way, did you see any structure with your 37x to 54x tweaked 101? ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul" <astro@pgog.net> To: "Russ Bessom" <russbessom@desurf.com> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:32 AM Subject: Re: Optical Instruments > Russ, > I use the fuji 10x70 and have never seen structure. > as for scopes v binos, I think you have great pair, > but I think my view at 25x thru televue NP101 with > 2 inch ep, is mighty fine. I trak sats with 101 on > somewhat modified parallelogram bino mount. > and I can tweak it up past 37x to 54x or xxx as long > as I can keep moving sat in fov. > > At 23:11 8/25/2002 +0200, you wrote: > >Never again! Bino's are the only way to go! > > > ******************************************** > Paul Gabriel 8305 > 26.24306N 098.21614W GPS (CT|UTC-6/-5) > +35.97m USGS/NED, -25.22m EGM96 Geoid height > +10.75m WGS-84 Ellipsoid height > aka McAllen, Texas USA 78504-2940 > "wherever you go, there you are" > astro@pgog.net > ******************************************** > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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