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Originally Posted by Stefannebula
Been looking at some other refractor options and I've found the Zenithstar71 F5.9, that comes with a .8 focal reducer. It's also cheaper than the Ed80, Seems like that could be a good option perhaps?
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Stefan, I have the Zenithstar, with the WO reducer/flattener it becomes ~f/4.7. I had a lot of fun with mine last year when I started imaging, at such a short focal length there's lots of good stuff to suck in
one little fly in the ointment is that I got some blue halos around bright stars. You might have some luck with a fringe killer but I haven't tried one. Otherwise, it's a lovely little scope, k now use it as my guide scope
More importantly it depends on what objects you're most interested in imaging. The image scale is quite different with a scope of 350mm and 1000mm.