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    Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces

    Its okay, you aren't ruining my day. That purchase is still months if not more in the future. Even so, I coudl easily still want either the 80ed or 65ed for terrestrial use and stick to a dedicated space tube so that I only need one collection of eyepieces.
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    Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces

    Drat, not even with some "adjustments" to the back of the scope? I had been told locally that the Pentax could take a diagonal.
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    Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces

    Whew, good. At this point I would be hard pressed to consider anything with a proprietary bayonet or otherwise limited mount. I was planning a nice set around the straight 80ED with a Williams diagonal and some Pentax XW eyepieces, straight through for birds and angled on the sky. The one...
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    Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces

    Interesting Henry, as Pentax eyepieces are thought to be among the best by telescope folks. Too bad about the prism design, I guess I'll scratch the Pentax off my list, would've been nice to have a waterproof refractor that was a fine terrestrial and astronomical unit in one.
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