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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankD" data-source="post: 1582783" data-attributes="member: 18544">Gwen,The size of the ocular lens in the XW 20 is significantly larger than that of the Promaster's zoom.The fine tuning focus of the Promaster was a bit "looser" than I prefer but I did find it handy at times.I did post some comments about comparisons between the Promaster, Celestron and Pentax in the beginning of the Celestron 65 thread including results of trying to mount the Promaster zoom on the Celestron.Optically the Celestron F-ED is better than the Promaster in terms of contrast, color rendition and CA control (a modest amount of the latter). The Promaster is noticeably more compact and lighter in overall weight. It is going to depend on what your priority is for these two scopes.</blockquote>