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Originally Posted by §AB
Interesting how you saw only 5 stars in your 12" - if your 8" can pick the six and my 10" at only 104x, maybe your 12" suffers from a pinched primary/secondary (or miscollimation or a defective mirror or...) or just happened to have horrible seeing?
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Cheers SAB. Yes, it's weird, but I pointed the 12" at Orion all last summer and never saw more than 5 stars. Having now looked through half a dozen different scopes, I can appreciate the 8" Starhopper had a great mirror. Saw some amazing stuff with it.