How long is a piece of string - you need many different Taks to survive !
My favourite is the TOA150 near perfect strehl great focal length - Big heavy and not always easy to manage but its my all time favourite and still love it, Im finding it very hard to part with
For visual I love my CN212 - its two scopes in one a Newtonian and a Cassegrain - I just leave it in Cassegrain mode - only scope I have had where I've seen a textbook perfect airey disc - ie a diffracted defocussed star split into 4 quadrants
The FC76 flourite is a great grab'go visual scope and got used at school star parties, its my son's now but hes not using it so I'm selling that to fund other things
My FSQ106N was a great scope even for visual it was truly perfect
However the FSQ106EDXIII is better for imaging, easy to set up and didnt suffer from the peripheral 'dark angels' the "N" series had (I think it was due to an internal aperture pinch on one of the Petzval elements)
I sold my Epsilon e200 before I got to use it for asteroids and comets (health reasons) so can't really comment (but its a big heavy scope)
My Epsilon e160 is much smaller but had a bigger imaging circle so it was better for imaging I think Im swapping it back for the e200 !
The Mewlon 180 never got much use as I found I was using the CN212 more even though it was bigger, but the views are legendary - better than my eyes could resolve.
My son got my MT130 thats Tak's little Newtonian - nice enough, very lightweight and way better than my first scope a Meade 114mm !
They all have a different place and role - as a non drinker, non smoker I have been able to gather them up over 2 decades, I used to run a few star parties for primary school kids and so they all got used at different times all visually and some for imaging too.
Some are better than others but they are all great
Just a shame I havent really been able to use them for the last 2 years hence my ads
