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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
My greatest lemon was a Long Pernq 90mm "APO" refractor. Smokey low contrast images, heaps of magenta and blue CA on everything I looked at. It was actually worse than my 120mm Skywatcher achro refractor. In complete disappointment, I sent it back. The latest Meade refractors are also cheap, plastic and wobbly. I bought an SN102 OTA and while the optics are fine, the focuser is a joke. It's all plastic. Thin plastic! The rack and pinion are plastic and as such the plastic teeth wear / strip very easily. It will be upgraded to a GSO Crayford in the future. The diagonal it comes with is plastic. Thin plastic!
Looks like both Meade and Celestron have gone to the dogs lately.
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I forgot, in my previous post, that I bought a Long Perng 90mm Apo as well. As you say, absolute rubbish-I sent mine back, too.