Please let me throw a bucket of cold water over this thread before it generates another Maksutov hype.
Back in the nineties I got sucked into one and made a 7.5" Gregory Mak.
Well it turned to be so temperamental regarding thermal control, that I moved on to a DK planetary not long after.
I won't go into details, but it is just about impossible to get a Mak working at it's theoretical limit for more than a few minutes in conditions of dropping temperature.
I know that there are not many big Mak's out there, but I've never seen cutting edge planetary images made with one. Has anyone?
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