Buyer Beware!

From: Mayer Duda (Mayer_at_duda.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:45:36 GMT

I have discoverd that the Celestron ED80 is not a good buy. The focuser
is too short a travel to allow prime focus photography unless you can get a
longer 1.25" adapter. It is off by about 1"! Also you always have to use
the 45 deg. diagonal to get focus.

A 2X's barlow placed into the diagonal won't
allow focusing on distant targets either, only closer range targets. It is
obvious that
Celestron made a big mistake by only supplying the 3" travel focuser rather
than
a 6". It is truly a spotting scope and can't be utiized for higher
magnification
astronomy. This must be the case for the Orion and Skywatcher 80ED's too
unless they come with a 6" travel focuser.

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