From: Dale Eason 
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: Dale Eason 


Sorry Russell, this is not new. It has been around a long time.  I have a
Celestron Comet Catcher that uses that method of focusing and it is as
natural as the up and down method.  Your eye just naturally follows the
small movement of the focuser.  You don't have to think about it.


-+- Russell Jocoy  wrote:
>
>
>   I myself believe that this is an inovative idea.
> the slide idea of a
> focuser is another animal added
> to the mix of what is known and tried and true,
> Don't get me wrong I have no
> experience with this
> type of system, and have not viewed or seen the
> "smoothness " of the flow of
> focus.... But, when
> a system relies on the truss poles for focus, this
> is a bird of a different
> color. In and out or up and down.
>   I feel that my eye is more comfortable in one spot
> focusing in and out
> rather than moving up or down...


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