Hi all,
well in light of the trouble I have had with my LX200 of late with collimation, I thought that I would star test my Orion last night.
I ran the scope through infocus and out of focus and noted that diffraction rings were perfectly centred. This was a pleasant change.
Next I turned onto M42 and focused with a 12mm EP which gave me near 58x mag. The trapesium stars were all crisp and bright, image scale was a lot wider than what I am used to but the nebula was showing quite well. This has given me some ideas about doing some wide field shots with this scope.
I then turned it onto Jupiter. The planet at 58x was small, but I could still make out the bands quite clearly and even a shadow of one of the moons on the face. Now I was really impressed. There were no signs of any colour aberration what so ever. This scope was worth the money.
So if you are in the market for a smaller scope, I can thoroughly recommend the Orion. Really impressed with it so far.
