Re: ATM BB Gun Reflex Site vs. Orion EZFinder

["Ed Hood" <aes@southwind.net>]

I have the "Celestron" version of the BB gun sight.  I think it works fine.
 But...  I never expected to see stars through the sight.  I expected to
see a red dot with one eye and the sky with the other.

FWIW, I don't think you could see a star through it (this may be a cheap
solar filter :-)).  If one eye in the sky and one through the "dot" doesn't
work for you, save your money.  It won't work for you.  Many people can
"connect the dots" but some cannot.  It doesn't mean you have been good or
bad...  Just that you need to see what you look at.

It works for me.  In fact, it works well.  It will probably work fine for
many people, but not all.  If you have to "see through the dot", I doubt if
any reflex sight, except for a telrad, will work.  Been there, done
that....

Ed Hood,
Hutchinson, Kansas



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> From: Robert Duvall <RDuvall@pixworks.com>
> To: James W. Burrows <burrjaw@halcyon.com>
> Cc: ATM <atm@shore.net>
> Subject: Re: ATM BB Gun Reflex Site vs. Orion EZFinder
> Date: Thursday, June 05, 1997 8:01 PM
> 
> At 12:52 PM -0800 6/5/97, James W. Burrows wrote:
> >On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Jim Fly wrote:
> >
> >> Are you crosseyed?
> >>
> >> I can't answer that one!  Any successful 1x users on the list
crosseyed?
> >
> >If I try to use the Telrad that way (both eyes open), I instantly become
> >crosseyed (walleyed?).  Must be my brain tells my eyes, "those visual
> >fields aren't the same, do what you want."  Actually, the _real_
challenge
> >is to try to hold up 10x50 binos and see stars + red circles at the same
> >time.
> 
> Must be a brain problem- you're the first one I've heard to have that
> problem; probably too many neutrinos from spending too much time with a
> scope in the open sky ;)
> 
> I have on several occasions held my binoculars behind the telrad, using
it
> as a monocular, to find an object that is too faint to be seen otherwise.
A
> bit awkward, but actually very useful, especially in my back yard with
all
> the light pollution. You can see the stars and the red circles just fine,
> but it's hard to hold steady enuf with 10x50's!
> 
> BTW, I don't know if my earlier mail made it and I just killed it or if
it
> never made it here, but I returned my Daisy gun site because it blocked
too
> many star's light with it's tinted plastic viewer. In my back yard it
> filtered out any star below Mag 3! But then my eyes aren't as young as a
20
> or 30 year olds... ;(
> 
> 
> Robert Duvall
> 
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> and General Scientist (according to my son)
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