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Originally Posted by mura_gadi
Hello,
Seeing outer space live is the bees knees for me. Knowing what your looking at keeps you at the eyepiece for longer imo.
I really like the idea of a table top as suggested for portability and having a nice small foot print.
As your budget is $3k and viewing location limited. I was going to suggest a 127mm mak on a table top. Retail for $980 and has the Freedom Find dual encoder technology etc.
As your probably going to be looking mostly at the moon, planets, double stars, clusters and the brightest of the gaseous DSO objects. This scope would be very good for those objects.
Hopefully Martin will talk about pro's and con's of the 127mm mak, and if its worth another 50% jump in price.
Steve
Ps. You might find this of interest.
http://www.deepskywatch.com/Articles...telescope.html |
Steve / Paul,
A 127 Mak is a longer focal length telescope ( 1500mm ) but at f11 is a slow scope with a narrower FOV so Ok for planets but not ideal for DSO’s
The Skywatcher 130mm Virtuoso table top f5 mini dob is a better all rounder IMO and significantly cheaper
Others may disagree
Cheers
Martin