GSO BT252 Carbon Truss Newt

[AstroBogan]

Hi all,

I am selling my RC8CF and am looking at a nice alternative. I was originally looking at a premium refractor, but found this on bintel:
https://www.bintel.com.au/product/bintel-gso-bt252-f4-carbon-truss-newtonian/?v=6cc98ba2045f

Has anyone used one of these before? How does it perform?

i've never owned a newt before, but have seen good images come from them in the past.

Perhaps the thing that stood out most to me was the F/4 as i've never imaged at anything faster than f/7.

[Karlzburg]

For imaging it'll wash out quicker with the light pollution you have.

[AstroBogan]

That was one of my worries, would lower gain levels on the camera help combat that issue?

[glend]

Paul Haase has its big brother and has had to do some remediation work on it, might be worth a PM to Paul. That said, it's expensive for an f4 imaging newt, when you consider the tube version costs about 1/3 that amount.

[spiezzy]

great scope But as Glen Mentioned you need to do some mods on it to get it right with mine I installed some carbon fibre tubes on the top secondary cage to increase the rigidness of it as there is a lot of flexure as you move the scope around the sky .
also installed a Moonlite Focuser on it the original linear 3" focuser is good but depending on what camera you are using it still has a little movement .
if you are worried about light scattering I purchased a light shroud from Teleskop Express in Germany it was for the 12" GSO RC scope and you can get a front cover as well but when I sorted all this I found this scope very capable and good one thing as a portable set up remember this is quite heavy so you will need at least a Losmandy G11 to carry it .
I have since sold mine as it was just a little to big for my POD Observatory and have down sized to a 8" Bintel imaging scope which is a little beauty as Glen Mentioned it is a quarter of the price and you don't have to do any mods food for thought
cheers Pete

[croweater]

Sidereal Trading have a couple of nice imaging newts on their site too. Cheers Richard.

[AstroBogan]

Thanks for the insight all!