Re: 2" 90° Apparent Field Eyepieces Announced

From: CLT (not_at_thisaddress)
Date: 07/01/04


Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:19:38 -0700


"Chris1011" <chris1011@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040630142411.25422.00000814@mb-m29.aol.com...
> >>Here's some more info from Bill Burgess: It's a 7-element design, all
> ED glass>>
>
> What a load of crap! All ED my foot. If ED glass was ever used in
eyepieces
> they would have narrow fields with very poor off-axis corrections.

The "all ED" got me too. But the total correction across the whole field is
kind of funny.

Maybe they are using that depleted uranium glass!

;-)

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