Re: [MDOsprey] Spotting Scopes
Darlene Valentine (darlenevalentine@hotmail.com)
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 05:15:58 PST
About a year and a half ago, I bought my first spotting scope. After
looking at several of the top birding scopes, I chose a Televue Ranger.
The Televue company has a very good reputation for excellent celestial
telescopes and had just developed a smaller, portable version of their
Pronto. It is very light weight and the optics are excellent. It comes
with a removable zoom eyepiece and is good for birding as well as star
gazing. You can also buy an extension to the eyepiece (called a Barlow, I
think) that will double or triple your magifying power. You can also buy
additional non-zoom eyepieces if you want. These are the same eyepieces
that Televue makes for its other celestial telescopes. They all fit the
Ranger - at least the ones that fit the Pronto fit the Ranger. I'm not real
sure about their larger telescopes.
Two web sites with information about this scope are: www.astronomics.com and
www.televue.com. Good luck on your search.
----Original Message Follows----
From: "john ball" <johnrball@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mdosprey@ARI.Net
To: mdosprey@ARI.Net
Subject: [MDOsprey] Spotting Scopes
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:27:32 GMT
Does anyone out there have a favorite spotting scope (who can tell me why
it's their favorite) or who knows data on comparisons of spotting scopes?
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