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Old 01-01-2009, 01:23 PM
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I was going to buy one when I bought my C11... The only thing that stopped me was its planetary performance.

For me it would have been for imaging only, but I needed a scope that would be great for planetary imaging, and for narrow field deep sky...

From what I know of them, they are a fantastic deep sky imaging scope... Brilliant optical quality, enough aperture, beautiful flat field, illuminates a large imaging sensor... What more could you want?? Well.. I could want a smaller obstruction and thinner spider vanes.

I've seen someone online take a dremel to the spider. He ground it down to 1mm, and the resulting diffraction spikes were much more pleasant. Not for the faint hearted though.
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