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Subject: [OM] Terrestrial vs. astronomical infinity
From: "Michael A. Covington" <covington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 11:47:00 -0400
>   This leads to the question if all lenses will alow you to focus on
>   astronomical infinity?
>
> Yes; otherwise you can't do distant scenery and the like.

> I was asking because in an book on Novoflex lenses they showed how to
> adjust this lenses from terrestial to astronomical infinity. Maybe the
> atmosphere is a more limiting factor in horizontal, than in vertical
> direction? So the coloured fringes might be a product of not proper
> infinty? Just a guess...

I haven't a *clue* what they're talking about.  Infinity is infinity!  Do
you still have the book?  Can you quote what they say?

Michael A. Covington  /  AI Center  /  The University of Georgia
Author, Astrophotography for the Amateur
http://www.ai.uga.edu/~mc  http://www.mindspring.com/~covington   <><



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