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Old 05-12-2008, 11:18 PM
toc (Tim)
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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
Actually my C8 seems to hold its collimation very very well. In fact Ive only done it once this year :-) (Then again I dont transport it around that much, so there is no reason why it would get out of alignment)
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