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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
I would happily put my money and my 14"/F4.5 Zambuto powered SDM up against any SCT, currently in Australia, in a visual shootout on the Moon or planets. In fact I would happily put my money on Rick Petrie's 14" Skywatcher against any SCT that anyone cares to throw in to the mix. Rick's 14" Skywatcher has a better mirror in it than any mass produced budget telescope has a right to have, but it is what it is. The downside of mass produced scopes, of course, is that you take the good with the bad and not everyone gets a mirror as good as Rick's.
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I'd love a look through your scope, John, should you wish to let me if our paths ever crossed, seriously curious to see what I'm missing, but then there's the inevitable wanting for a cherry-picked, unique, or at least very expensive scope
The crux of the issue is summed up by your last sentence...for the rest of us, unless we dig deeply we're all at the mercy of whatever Skywatchers, Meade, GSO or Celestron churns out. So unless we win the lottery, it's a lottery
