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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 1557383" data-attributes="member: 665">If you had as many floaters as I do, you'd be too busy moving your eyeball around to get rid of them to notice those crescent rolls. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I've seen this phenomenon on many bins when the sun was overhead and I was looking for birds in the trees. So the "tilt theory" sounds plausible to me. I did not notice the infamous gray crescent on the Promaster ED, which seems to be another Chinese ED clone. I used the Promaster on an overcast winter's day, and I was impressed how it showed almost no CA on two hawks in a nearby tree with a back lit gray sky. I actually did see a green crescent in the bottom of the bins while looking for CA when viewing the sky through the thin supports of a basketball hoop, and I thought "Ah, hah!" (I was trying to find a reason why the ED was not as good as my LX <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, but it turned out to be a reflection of the green courts below the hoop. The focuser was sluggish. So if they made it faster, that is a welcomed change. Now if the ED2 could only dance and sing, it could finally compete with alpha bins costing $1,400 more. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />And to think, Steve and Frank call me "picky"!Brock</blockquote>

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