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Originally Posted by The_bluester
One avenue to follow is to search for images on sites like Astrobin for images shot with the scopes you are looking at as candidates.
The best scope on earth will still produce poor results out of poor processing, but if you find a healthy number of good images from different people (In case someone has found some processing tricks, fair or foul, to overcome problems with a scope) using a scope you are considering then there is a fair chance they are a good scope.
It is not a sure thing. I bought my Stellarvue SVX80 on the basis of shooting with a friends SV70. If there had been an SVX70 (Which replaced the SV70) available at the time, I would have bought one like a shot, but what I was comparing it to was a Celestron RASA 8".
I could not find many images shot through the RASA 8" that I would have been happy to publish at that time, so I bought the SVX80 (Which I am still very happy with) but now there are some really good images appearing from the RASA.
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I really wish if i bought that Stellarvue 70T back in the past, i might be so happy now and successful with images, but i ignored it due to prices and running after expensive Takahashi scope and i end up with only two Newt and one Mak, and funny i still using my ST80 guide scope as imaging, and last year i ordered my first APO refr which is 90mm F/6 triplet, but the store online delaying it over and over, so i will expect it later this year.
For that above scope i ordered, i was in rush, the budget was for getting 14" Dobsonian i was eye-ing for a while, but the site destroyed me and said they don't ship, so while i am desperate i just ordered whatever i saw later on another site, 90mm f/6 FPL55 triplet, and while i was waiting i did test my ST80 with my new 0.8x reducer and i shocked amazed of the results, i mean FOV, i felt like it was the first time i saw that although i used my Canon 300mm, but the lens has much more issues i see than a guide scope i use, so because of that i changed my plan, or say added so many things in my plan.
I looked around on Astrobin, i saw like two or three images, that i liked, i was trying to eye something like Andromeda or M45 or Horsehead, because those targets are the real test for LRGB or color cameras, not narrowbanding, so i don't know if i have to judge a scope from narrowbanding targets or those LRGB targets, and yet in another forum someone still finding issues within those nice results, and i told him that if that is the case then there is no perfect refractor scope at all, and even the best one that will be way way way out of my reach my entire life, so i don't know if i should be that much strict to issues details in any image only to reject it, but i liked the results after all.