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Originally Posted by binofied
I was always feeling that the small ~12x9mm chip on the ST2000 while being a truely great camera was giving me a limiting FOV. I have managed recently to liberate some money by selling my 16" Binocular telescope. This money has gone on an order for an STL-11000. So now I have a camera with a huge chip and an old SCT that won't fully illuminate it. Given this and that I currently have a mount that is limiting the weight I can carry, I was fishing to see if anyone came up with a recommendation for a perfect match and able to blow the Meade optics out of the water at the same time.
Perhaps at this stage I should simply crop the Meade images so they are OK and put money into something like the new baby Paramount, so that I can go crazy with optics at a later date?
As always tighter stars, better contrast, lack of CA leading to higher quality final images is my goal.
BTW I am more interested in Nebulas, both bright but especially dark rather than galaxies. I have little interest in planetary imaging.
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I understand now. If I were you I'd get a
12" F/3.6 ASA. They're beautiful scopes by the pictures I've seen posted around and in a league of their own for the money. Nothing comes close. That's the ideal rig for a widish field set-up with plenty of resolution.