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Originally Posted by casstony
The Skyrover f/5 and the Sharpstar 61edph and WO Redcat 51 all seem like decent imaging scopes. Perhaps choose based on focal length? The Redcat gets you more differentiation from your current scope.
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It certainly does Tony, it has the widest FOV by a good margin. It was on the short list with the other two but I was a bit worried oversampling might be an issue with the KAF8300 chip in my cam.
I'm not sure how big of a problem this is but the FLT98@F5 is already pushing the boundary apparently according to the "Nyquist theorum".
The image of M31 I posted recently was done using my Z70 & .8 FR giving it a focal length of 344mm which is almost identical to the Sky Rover specs.
& to be honest I'd be happy enough with that image scale/Fov with a better corrected Fov & colour. The smaller stars were looking a bit 'blocky" in that image even though it was binned @50%.
I guess that's why I'm leaning towards the Sky Rover, it's not too far removed from what I know is doable with my camera but I can't find much in the way of reviews.
I believe it's a newer improved version of the model that was farmed out to Meade & William Optics as the 70mm Quad Astrograph & Star 71 V2 variant.
Your input has been valuable though Tony, I'm sorry for the long winded reply but it was helpful to get this reasoning out of my head & on to paper as such.
I'm going a bit
trying to make a decision on this.
Cheers,
Tony