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Old 05-12-2008, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by robgreaves View Post
Completely different animals...

What are your imaging aspirations? Wide(er) field or large image scale stuff for small planetaries and galaxies etc.?

Bear in mind that optically, it's always better to Barlow/Powermate up than to reduce down.

Refractors are great - highly versatile, no fuss. A SCT will require constant collimation.

Regards,
Rob
Thank you Rob...constant collimation puts me off...I have enough fiddly things to do during set up I will address this aspect before I do anything.

alex
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