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Originally Posted by miki63au
Hi everyone.
Also Andrews Com. selling the 6" achro OTA for about the $800 as well.
How is the Chinese refractors would compare to?
Any opinion?
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$800?? They were $599 last month. I bought one just to find out more about it and sold it again after 2 weeks. The images were contrasty (as expected) showing good definition and fairly sharp for an achro but the chromatic aberration was apparent and some star images did look quite yellowish. The CA also affected the apparent sharpness to some extent. Compared side by side to unmodified 12" GSO & 10" Skywatcher dobs, the contrast of the refractor was way better. I tried putting an aperture stop on the unmodified 12" GSO dob and the result was nowhere as good as the 6" refractor (chromatic aberration aside). Overall, despite the false colours, I'll choose this refractor over an unmodified budget 10" dob.