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Originally Posted by AG Hybrid
It's no wonder even the best refractors with smaller apertures cant compete.
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You should try again now that I've fixed the collimation. It was quite close but not quite perfect at 450X and I thought leave well enough alone. But last Saturday I broke out the screwdriver and tweaked it, ever so gently. All it took was barely crack 1 screw, perhaps 1/10th of a turn or less.
Now that it's spot on I can say a Strehl of 97% is quite something to behold, and I was quite surprised at just how much difference that tweak made at really high powers on close multiple stars and planets.
Something else also stood out looking at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn - even in poor to average seeing its quite easy to identify those that are moons and not stars. Jupiters moons are resolved nicely... Saturns are harder.
Compiling a list of close double stars to see how it fares near Dawes limit.
FWIW I have a nice 8" f/9 mirror with a fine figure in storage, never used.... I think that's going to be up for sale soon.