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2 posted on 08/25/2009 3:22:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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The optical quality must have been amazing for the time. I have two 20 and 30 power high end spotting scopes, both have ED glass and I have difficulty making out the moons of Jupiter or the rings or Saturn yet Galileo could see them with an uncoated lens.


3 posted on 08/25/2009 3:33:13 PM PDT by yarddog
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