Showing posts with label Orion XT6i first light test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orion XT6i first light test. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Aurora's XT6i

Bought Aurora an XT6i to replace her ETX-80 with.  Impressions so far are good.  The instructions for assembly could have been better (parts better labled).  It took a while to get it together.  Optics are great, and the object locator is spot on.  We took it for a test run last night and it zeros in on the objects just fine.  Orion looked magnificent.  I am going to replace the 30mm finder with a new 50mm finder that I have.

Good timing on its arrival as I'm doing a public outreach for her school in a few weeks.  Going to need the extra scope!