I have been vacillating over this scope for a year. Almost bought it twice, finally did last night. The slight mold issue in the objective put me off, but after contacting Roger and he said it would clean just fine, I went ahead.
The FAR from common Vixen DED108SS 108mm f/5 astrograph - Vixen's attempt to crack into Takahashi's niche FSQ106 market (Vixen failed
). These scopes are now pretty scarce, as the production numbers are SMALL.
The corrected image circle is huge. Look at the size of the drawtube to start with! I will have a light cone made for it like the newer refrac astrographs, rather than the custom made one on there now (which is correctly spaced to a Canon DSLT chip).
Weight is 6kg, so my beloved GPD2 will handle it just fine. Sold my newly acquired MN190 to afford it, but what the heck!
More when it arrives in my eager hands. Hurry up Mr DHL
