I LOVE Agena Astro, too! :o) Now, I also ordered a 99% reflectivity dielectric diagonal from Astronomics (Cloudy Nights Thought Police Overlords) and am still waiting, even though they had several days' jump on UO. Great products, but the little guys beat them to death on customer service, every time. One of my favorite old refractors is an Orion 80mm doublet with 2" R&P focuser from at least 20 years ago. F/5, 400mm focal length. It's a lens cell and focuser with a few inches of tube in-between, lol. But as a finder or small RFT, it just excells. I used it as a guidescope when I shot Hale-Bopp, with a 5mm guiding eyepiece and 2.8X Barlow (can it be 13 years, already? Wow.) I can't wait to see how it performs as a large finder with this eyepiece. I should just run over to your place with it one of these nights. On 6/28/10, Steve FISHER <sfisher01@msn.com> wrote:
Chuck:
Some of the small companies are amazing aren't they? Like you, I ordered my new diagonal form Agena Astro after 5:00 pm on Tuesday and had it in Friday mornings mail. Two day Priority Mail and no one had to send it by memo to the shipping department who in turn will get to it soon.
I need to get out the 80mm finder and see if I can live with it with a 32mm eyepiece. That will be the only deciding factor now that you have posted your initial findings.
Keep us posted.