Using a small telescope as a spotting scope

[flak88mm]

Have any if you used a refractor as a spotting scope in the range? I found a good deal on ebay and didn't hesitate to buy it. I looked thru it and it can see pretty far.



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[Unretarded]

If it will focus at the ranges you need to shoot, go for it !

Finding the target and getting set up on it might a minute or 2.....

[flak88mm]

Yeah I recently got into astronomy and I could improvise using this.

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[sonofeugene]

Usable but not ideal. Optics designed for looking at the heavens are designed differently, usually with little or no coatings to help viewing terrestrial objects. If it works, though, that's great.

What's the magnification and how big is the main lens?

[Bainter1212]

I did for awhile. Works great but takes forever to find what you want to look at.
After you do though, works well.

[cavemanlrrp]

I use a Celestron c90 at times.
A zoom eye piece is a plus if you can find one.

Best
caveman

[flak88mm]

Usable but not ideal. Optics designed for looking at the heavens are designed differently, usually with little or no coatings to help viewing terrestrial objects. If it works, though, that's great.

What's the magnification and how big is the main lens?

80mm lense. Orion short tube 80 f/5 refractor. Unsure about magnification all I know is that it came with a 10mm eyepiece and a 25 mm eyepiece and a 2x Barlow. I'm making this my dedicated solar scope where I'm gonna buy an H alpha filter to see solar prominences. I also bought a 16" truss tube dobsonian for planets and deep space objects

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[Carcassonne]

Have any if you used a refractor as a spotting scope in the range? I found a good deal on ebay and didn't hesitate to buy it. I looked thru it and it can see pretty far.

I used one for a while. The only thing bad about it was that it took up too much room on the shooting bench. If you shoot somewhere beside a public range, it is a great option.

[flak88mm]

I shoot at Westend

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[joefrank64k]

I just bought a Celestron C5 for use as an ELR spotter:

http://www.adorama.com/CNC5SS.html

Haven't used it yet, so I can't report on how it works. So far from others, I've heard mixed reports from the field.

If this doesn't work, then I'll be forced to buy a Spotter 60. Wish me luck

http://www.eurooptic.com/carl-zeiss-optronics-hensoldt-spotter-20-60x72-spotter-60.aspx

BTW: If you're in the market, the Spotter 60 is $1,000 off. Add to your cart to see the discount.

[flak88mm]

Yeah I'm probably gonna stick to my st80 my plan was to buy the quark for solar viewing on astronomy days and on shooting days use it as a spotting scope

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[GoatLocker]

Not ideal, but it will work to a point. You might have problems seeing .22 holes much beyond 100-200 yds. Chromatic aberration will be pretty severe. The 45deg diagonal is probably not gonna help. The ST80's FL is 400mm, so 400mm/10mm = 40x, 400mm/25mm = 16x.

I can't imagine putting a $1,000 Quark on such a cheap scope! Not sure I would trust the eyepiece holder/focuser.

[flak88mm]

Everyone on cloudy nights, amateur and advanced astronomers, are recommending this configuration for low budget folks to get an ST80 with this quark for those who can't afford the Coronado or Lunt product lines. They even posted images of their set up so I went for it

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