Riccardo_1
Member
Dear all,
I’m looking for a light and portable spotting scope.
It will be used mostly for birding, nature observing and as a multipurpose scope (also for astronomy) when I am away for holiday and/or I feel too lazy to set up my Orion Optics VX8L dobson.
I’m quite tight on budget, and I’m considering the Acuter DS65, sold by First Light Optics at around 215€ / 230$. It comes with a good zoom eyepiece which I can use also on my dobson and it accept standard 1.25” astro EPs.
First question: is this the same zoom as the one used in Celestron Regal?
Second question: how bad is chromatic aberration (CA)? From one side, I had a TAL100 (a 100mm russian achromatic refractor) that was perfectly fine for me. I also have a 8x42 achromatic binocular, which again is fine for me. From the other side, I bought a year ago a Celestron Skymaster Pro 15x70 which showed terrible (again, for me) CA: a lot of purple fringe across trees, especially with a white (i.e. cloudy) background. I returned it after a week. If the DS65 performs like that, I prefer to buy nothing rather than getting frustrated each time I look at the eyepiece.
Any user report, comments and/or suggestions are very welcome
I’m looking for a light and portable spotting scope.
It will be used mostly for birding, nature observing and as a multipurpose scope (also for astronomy) when I am away for holiday and/or I feel too lazy to set up my Orion Optics VX8L dobson.
I’m quite tight on budget, and I’m considering the Acuter DS65, sold by First Light Optics at around 215€ / 230$. It comes with a good zoom eyepiece which I can use also on my dobson and it accept standard 1.25” astro EPs.
First question: is this the same zoom as the one used in Celestron Regal?
Second question: how bad is chromatic aberration (CA)? From one side, I had a TAL100 (a 100mm russian achromatic refractor) that was perfectly fine for me. I also have a 8x42 achromatic binocular, which again is fine for me. From the other side, I bought a year ago a Celestron Skymaster Pro 15x70 which showed terrible (again, for me) CA: a lot of purple fringe across trees, especially with a white (i.e. cloudy) background. I returned it after a week. If the DS65 performs like that, I prefer to buy nothing rather than getting frustrated each time I look at the eyepiece.
Any user report, comments and/or suggestions are very welcome