Please accept my apology

I would enjoy carrying on the discussion a bit if we can keep the tone
level. I was just trying to report observation. I sincerely apologize if
I, no, because I got a bit testy. It was a very rough week---imagine, two
new 6" refractors and the best I could squeeze in was a few minutes of
twilight lunar observing! THAT'S a rough week!

I have seen though, with other scopes that my faster refractors seem to be
brighter. They do vary from OTA to OTA but I can only report on what I have
or have used.

May we continue? I'm particularly interested in the post about pushing the
optics one color to reduce aberration but at the expense of
sharpness---toward the blue or something to that effect?

Doink


"rat ~( );>" <ratboy99@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Doink wrote:
>> I would call them well made acromats too. I like the ease of use and,
>> sorry, brighter image I get with faster optics---let's not relaunch the
>> discussion on that please.
>
> What discussion, Doink? Image brightness in astronomical telescopes is
> strictly a function of aperture. Just because you want to stick your
> head in the sand to deny this FACT doesn't make it otherwise. If you're
> going to give advice in this hobby, at least endeavour to be accurate
> (be a **scientist**, dammit).
>
> rat
> ~( );>
>


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