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Originally Posted by Peter.M
My experience with newts is that without an OAG it is very hard to eliminate flexture for longer subs. This depends on how long you want to go of course, but currently I shoot 30 minutes narrowband with good results. My GSO newt had huge issues holding collimation as it changed orientation which I put down to the steel tube, the sub standard mirror cell, and flimsy spider system. As far as a larger scope recording more details, I would be very cautious. I'm not sure that this will be the case. As far as I am aware, more aperture will resolve stars better, but as far as detail im not so sure.
I think that the local seeing will play a greater role as well as the sampling of your setup, which may well be better for deconvolution with the RC8.
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Hi Peter,
Thanks again , definitely more reading on my part required and appreciate the honesty before I make any jump
. I have obviously miss-understood an article I read about aperture and resolution of details. I will look into the deconvolution side of things as I am not sure what that means (still a steep learning curve to go for me).
I still like the idea of an F4 over an F8 due to the light gathering capacity but as you rightly pointed out I can go 10+ minutes subs (tested at 20 minutes as a max without issue) at the moment without any real hassle on the gear I have so introducing flexure into my system would be a step backwards.
On to some more reading
Thanks again.
Anthony