Another outstanding firm represented at NEAF with excellent products & service is Finger Lakes Instrumentation. I£c been by their booth several times as I wished to say hello to Gregory, but he£r a busy fellow so I kept moving along. Doing business with FLI is always a pleasure and Gregory goes far to make it so. Their PDF focuser is outstanding and works great on my FRC-300. If you£qe in the market for a PDF, adapters, filter wheel, camera - any product they carry actually - I would recommend you contact him. Eventually George and I had an opportunity to speak with Gregory and I took the opportunity to capture the image belowÌìÎļÒÔ°»¶Ó­Äú£¡* L+ X( J8 J9 o: V5 I( i, C

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Another firm I£ue seen many times over the years and one I£l always astounded about as I view their work is b. crist miniatures... they produce miniature representations of telescopes that are truly works of art. I took the time to get a few shots of the models and was thinking about how great this would be with my macro lens set up, some lighting and a tripod. These significantly reduced jpg images don£s really do justice to these exquisite pieces, but I believe you can obtain a fairly good idea of the workmanship exhibited in this effort. I mean really ?check this out ?it£r not just telescopes, there£r even a miniature roll-a-table, observing guides and a laptop in view... www.astroview.com.cn: K* i# O1 [* d0 a
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Our associate Ron is an avid solar observer. I believe he does get out at night from time to time but solar observing (and imaging somewhat) is a great interest to him. George also enjoys this and we£ue been talking about an effort to image the sun with one of my digital cameras. They were aware of a new firm, Lunt Solar Systems LLC, attending NEAF 2008 and this was a major topic in the vehicle heading south. I guess they were pleased about this as both ended up purchasing new solar telescopes before we departed...
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arlow Bob?surely has made the solar Observing portion of NEAF an impact to the event nowadays. What started out as modest effort was quickly organized and expanded into an ¡ˆvent within the event?scenario that has taken on a life of its own thanks primarily to his sterling efforts. People not familiar with solar viewing are in for a treat as a significant gathering of fine optics and excellent filters for solar viewing can be found on the field these days. I£ue never attended a star party anywhere with a finer array of solar viewing equipment and it's staffed by excellent observers more than pleased to share the views. Good job Mr. Barlow!

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