Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 11/03/1997 11:16:13 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.0.54) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37470
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 12/01/1997 04:44:10 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.56.183) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37471
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 02/08/1998 05:44:32 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.130.45) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37472
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 05/10/1998 04:58:08 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.166.246) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37474
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 11/24/1999 12:23:48 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.225.246) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37486
Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 04/13/2000 03:45:01 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.143.177) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37487
Overall Rating: 8 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 05/05/2000 07:51:52 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.28.196) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37489
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 10/28/2000 06:42:16 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.190.132) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37492
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 02/17/2001 11:47:35 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.197.186) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37500
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 04/23/2001 07:13:34 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.1.15) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37503
Overall Rating: No Vote Weight: <none> Date: 07/25/2001 09:31:28 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.220.244) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37506
Guys, I am new in this world of sky watching and do not have the experience that you have. I have the oportunity to due to a change in life to buy a quality piece. I´ve heard all kinds of opinions about apos. My selection had now been narrowed to TMB and Televue 4 in. apo. Money is not an issue. Please help me out to choose the most versatile and best apo. >the big three, AP, TMB, and takahashi. i have stated elsewhere in these reviews that anyone looking for a quality refractor would be thrilled to own a scope from one of these companies. there are reasons i chose AP over the rest. let me start by saying the differences optically among these scopes is slight at best, anyone of these companies produce what can be considered excellent optical quality (you can include tele vue). focal length and aperture are personal preferences. i like the fact that AP scopes are 100% made at their facility in illinois. their product info guide says this includes individual optics, critical gears, circuit boards and components right down to the knobs and fittings. in choosing the traveler i like the idea of a permanently aligned cell, and the scope is very portable. it is capable of low power wide field views and its planetary performance is excellent, as close as it gets to an all purpose scope. the traveler is an investment, i don't even have mine yet and i have had offers for more than what i will be paying for it myself. God forbid that anything should happen to roland, but one day when he stops making these scopes you or someone in your family will want to have one, no telling what they will be worth one day. the price is reasonable and affordable for most. the only pain in the rear is the wait, but time is a constant, it does not change and i figure 2 or 3 years will come and go and vanish like a fart in the wind, three years from now i would be saying "i sure wish i could go back in time and put my name on that list" bottom line, just do it, this scope is the best all purpose 4" APO on the planet.
>the big three, AP, TMB, and takahashi. i have stated elsewhere in these reviews that anyone looking for a quality refractor would be thrilled to own a scope from one of these companies. there are reasons i chose AP over the rest. let me start by saying the differences optically among these scopes is slight at best, anyone of these companies produce what can be considered excellent optical quality (you can include tele vue). focal length and aperture are personal preferences. i like the fact that AP scopes are 100% made at their facility in illinois. their product info guide says this includes individual optics, critical gears, circuit boards and components right down to the knobs and fittings. in choosing the traveler i like the idea of a permanently aligned cell, and the scope is very portable. it is capable of low power wide field views and its planetary performance is excellent, as close as it gets to an all purpose scope. the traveler is an investment, i don't even have mine yet and i have had offers for more than what i will be paying for it myself. God forbid that anything should happen to roland, but one day when he stops making these scopes you or someone in your family will want to have one, no telling what they will be worth one day. the price is reasonable and affordable for most. the only pain in the rear is the wait, but time is a constant, it does not change and i figure 2 or 3 years will come and go and vanish like a fart in the wind, three years from now i would be saying "i sure wish i could go back in time and put my name on that list" bottom line, just do it, this scope is the best all purpose 4" APO on the planet. > APs are no longer entirely made in America. Some of the optics are now made in Russia. Still good, but not American. This was relayed to me by Mike Palermitti, optical designer. Buy the way, he is the tester who recently failed about half of 20 Travelers for not coming to optical spec........
Overall Rating: No Vote Weight: <none> Date: 08/28/2001 12:11:58 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.148.159) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37513
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 10/14/2001 09:00:22 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.197.96) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37515
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 10/29/2001 07:13:32 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.188.186) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37516
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 11/20/2001 09:19:28 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.51.38) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=37518
Overall Rating: 6 Optics:9 Ease of Use:9 Value:4 Weight: 6 (Veritable Vote) Date: 04/07/2002 05:16:33 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.200.24) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=80749
Overall Rating: 9 Optics:10 Ease of Use:9 Value:7 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 09/20/2002 09:15:02 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.75.14) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=135154
Overall Rating: 10 Optics:10 Ease of Use:9 Value:8 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 03/22/2004 07:00:33 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.146.93) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=348593
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 11/06/2005 06:05:01 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.77.170) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=471559
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