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Originally Posted by jase
I saw the FLT-132 at an astrophotography conference in Belgium November last year. Impressive scope, but don't fool yourself, its not light. For visual work you'd be ok with the EQ6. Imaging would require something more substantial to provide accurate tracking with this scope. You also need to consider the use of a field flattener if you intend to use large format CCDs. Personally, I have my reservations on TMB optics.
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Thanks Jase. The 9-10kg that this OTA weighs is substantially lighter than the OTA/Fork combination of the LX200, so it isn't that heavy. Why the reservations about the optics? Every review I have read practically raves about them. If you compare them to a Tak I suppose you'd go the Tak - but for a 130mm, the Tak in this country is still $2k more.