Re: [APML]: EG/GEG questions

[Wil Milan <wmilan@airdigital.com>]

For your Newtonian you need the Lumicon Newtonian EasyGuider. I have one
and it works great. I've also used it with my Genesis; the Newtonian EG
works with any scope with a 2" focuser. (They make one for 1.25" focusers,
but if vignettes terribly on 35mm film.)

The focal reducers only work with SCTs, and your f/7 Cave is fast enough
as-is anyway.

Wonderful scopes, those old Caves. I grew up a few miiles from the Cave
factory on Anaheim Road in Long Beach, California. When I was in high
school another young astronomer and I used to pop down to the Cave store
and press our noses against the glass; I so dreamed of owning one of those
scopes. Congratulations on one of the great classics of all time.

Wil M.
--
"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars which You have set in place,
what is Man that you are mindful of him,
or the son of Man that you care for him?"  -- Psalm 8


Paul Sterngold wrote:

>
> I currently use a TV Genesis (older 500mm f/5 style) with an 80mm
> guidescope, mounted side-by-side.  I have just recently acquired a
> Cave 8" f/7 that I also want to use for astrophotos.  The thread about
> differential flexure has me concerned about using a guidescope with
> the Cave, so I'm considering buying an EG or GEG.  I have a couple of
> questions:
>
> 1) The Cave came with a 1.25" focuser.  I am planning to upgrade it to
> a 2" focuser.  Does the EG come in a 2" model, or only the GEG?
>
> 2) Does the Lumicon reducer that's designed for the EG/GEG work well
> only with SCTs, or longer fl scopes?  More to the point, would it
> provide satisfactory images with the Cave?  What about with my
> Genesis?  What is the percentage of reduction?
>
> TIA for your assistance.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul Sterngold
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