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Old 12-05-2008, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter Kalan View Post
Hi, I’m looking at spending $500-600 on a new scope. I already have a 10inch GSO dob, so am looking for something that’s more portable. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

At the moment I’m tossing up between the following refractors from andrews. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

120 x 600mm OTA + AZ3...A$499

Thanks
Peter.
I also have this scope and use it as a guide scope. It does have quite a bit of false colour. If you are going to use the scope mainly visually then I think the smaller scopes will be very disappointing. An 80mm ED as suggested seems OK for photography but gives a pretty dim image visually.
The 150mm mak would be light and captures much more light. Not as much as your dob but much more satisfying.
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