Re: Expensive Small Aperture Refractor?

Hi:

Small, high quality refractors...

These are APO, refractors which mean they have none of the false color
that plagues less expensive refractors. Inch for inch these scopes do
everything extremely well, the produce sharp images across the field of
view at low powers, sharp images at high power, cool down is fast,
collimation is not a problem, all around these are nice scopes.

But when looking at other factors like cost or size, you can get better
value in other scopes.

Jon

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