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Old 08-02-2015, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Amaranthus View Post
The Orion ED80T CF is a superb widefield astrograph - light, short cooldown, short FL. I image with it at f/4.8 using a 0.8 FR. It's also a really nice portable visual scope... although I tend to favour my SW120 f/5 for that purpose, since it gobbles up so much more light and is still only a 600mm FL (yes, it is an achro, but for nebula/clusters etc. any CA is negligible and unnoticed).
Thanks for the info Barry. Having difficulty actually buying an SW or Orion ED80 at the moment. Shops can't get stock! Also out of EQ5 mounts! How does the sw120 compare to the ed80 for visual of planets?

Jim

Last edited by JimsShed; 08-02-2015 at 09:51 AM. Reason: Typo; eq5 not eq6
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