Re: [APML] Need for a 300 mm "CCD scope"; was: (OT) IC1396 CCD with Schmidt-like FOV

[Gene Horr <genehorr@texas.net>]

Bert Katzung wrote:

> Thanks for the input---that Tak scope and its price are a very useful
> yardstick! Is that no longer available? 

No, they stopped 3 or 4 years ago.  There wasn't enough demand (hmmm.
A bad datum....) much of this may have been due to the lack of back
focus, though.  You couldn't use a diagonal hence it was a poor choice
for a visual instrument.  One heck of a little pocket astrograph, though.

Gene Horr
genehorr@texas.net

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