This one is optically excellent, will not disappoint visual observers interested in lunar & planetary, it easily delivers beautiful images at 300X with a 9mm eyepiece. Collimation is perfect. Image shift when focusing is negligible at 300X. It is also useful for DSO's - has a 2" back and can easily fill a 2" 38mm UWA eyepiece and in dark skies pulls in galaxies out of reach of a 5" APO or 6" scope.
Depending how you store it, may show a tube-current at first, so be prepared to let it cool down but from then on this is a very, very nice scope which easily betters any 8" SCT.
Note: this includes the OTA and original Skywatcher 8x50 finderscope only. OTA is in excellent cosmetic condition. Underneath it has a Vixen rail with the usual wear from the first mount I had.
$1000 assuming you collect in Sydney (can meet you). Postage extra at your cost.
Only reason for parting with this is that a significantly larger mak with known pedigree became available, which I have acquired.
