Posts Made By: Gerry Feulner

Just received an email from Anacortes that my scope was shipped today. It's one of the original 100 and ordered back in February.

To Norman-I downloaded easy thumbnails and it solved my resizing problem. Works great!! Thanks a million! Gerry

Just got it 5 minutes ago! Have to go to work but will check it out later today.

Hi Everyone- Besides being too thin to see the crosshairs through the finder, mine are out of focus .I guess they're too close to the finder eyepiece. Anyone have any suggestions??

I for one, hate having to adjust the push-pull click stop adjustment on my Radians everytime I use them. There have been several suggestions on how to fix them including rubber bands and tape to name two. I went out and bought a pack of slip joint washers in the plumbing section at Home Depot. They come in a pack of six in 1 1/4, 1 1/2 and 2" diameter sizes. Just slip the 1 1/2" over the barrel up against the click stop at the point that's good for viewing through the eyepiece and no more adjustment. Works beautifully and it's black so you don't notice them on the barrel.

Can anyone give me the website for the program that gives double star info, galaxies, dso's ,planetary nebulae etc? It's the one where you scroll down to the constellation and enter the separation ( between 1.0 and 10.0 for instance) of double stars etc. I had it in "my favorites" and lost it when my computer "froze". Thanks for any help. Gerry Feulner

Hi everyone- I'm thinking of buying a 7.5mm eyepiece and noticed that Orion sells this focal length in both the Epic and Lanthanum brand. They have similar FOV and eye relief and I was wondering if the Lanthanum is worth the extra money. This eyepiece would primarily be used for planetary observing. If have 2 Radians in different focal lengths but really don't want to spend another $240. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Gerry

Hi everyone, I've been reading these recent posts about the quality of the 127's with great interest. I have to agree with comments about quality etc, from Chinese optics. We have to remember that the original 100 scopes sold for $289.00. A bargain in anybody's book assuming that the final product is half-way decent. My scope is sn #27 and I'm impressed with it. I bought it more out of curiosity than the need for a 5" scope. I have a 6" Astro-Physics Triplet of 1986 vintage. I knew when I bought the 127, that there was no way it would compare favorably with the 6"(light grasp alone is better)but I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised. The finder cross hairs are usless(I took 'em out), The focuser was smooth but had to be squared with the optics, but once that was done, I have a high contrast, very well baffled nice looking $289.00 scope that gives textbook star images and nice views of the Moon and Saturn (haven't tried Jupiter yet). I figured the worst case senario would be if I didn't like it I would sell it on Astromart like at least 4 other people are doing! But this particular 127 is a keeper. When you buy Chinese, it's more "the luck of the draw" because they ARE mass-produced. I must have lucked out because I'm a happy camper. Gerry Feulner

Looks like a double transit tonight on Jupiter. The shadow of Ganymede at 4:00 UT and Io at 5:38.

Did anyone image the double tranit on Jupiter last night? We were blessed with rain here on the east coast.