I respect your opinion, so please respect mine. If you don't want to magnify, then you don't need a telescope at all. Hence, the only purpose of a telescope, is to magnify the image. This is simple logic. Harald Your logic is flawed.
Many people use telescopes simply to collect more photons.
Many couldn't care less about magnification, they just need more signal. Dieter Kreuer Back to Tallahassee Astronomical Society's home page.