Jupiter

I have a TeleVue Pronto that I purchased about 12 or 13 years or so ago. It is a nice little scope especially when I use Plossil lenses. I am not as pleased with the Nagler wide views. Poor contrast and resolution. Perhaps today's Naglers are improved over the originals but, the poor performance compared to my Plossils left a bad taste in my mouth. I would not purchase one again without being able to try it first. Anyway, I would be interested in knowing what lenses you favor on your 4" TeleVue. I always wished that I had got the 101 instead of the Pronto.

Great pictures by the way.
 
rnhood said:
I have a TeleVue Pronto that I purchased about 12 or 13 years or so ago. It is a nice little scope especially when I use Plossil lenses. I am not as pleased with the Nagler wide views. Poor contrast and resolution. Perhaps today's Naglers are improved over the originals but, the poor performance compared to my Plossils left a bad taste in my mouth. I would not purchase one again without being able to try it first. Anyway, I would be interested in knowing what lenses you favor on your 4" TeleVue. I always wished that I had got the 101 instead of the Pronto.

Great pictures by the way.
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The Pronto is a nice little scope. I find the Naglers are very good ep's for wide field views, but as far as for viewing the planets I don't use them much because they have too much glass in them. When I am just viewing and not taking pictures I use a 2 to 4mm TeleVue zoom.

If you would use a Nagler with your Pronto you would get some great wide field views of globular clusters and other distant objects. The new Naglers are much improved and lighter than the older ones. A Nagler is a good match up with your scope and if you don't like it they are easy to sell.
 
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