I have to agree with all the others. I haven't used the TV 76 but I have used the TV85, NP101 and the NP127 for visual observation. They are all excellent instruments. However, the Megrez 90 is also a fine scope. I think you're going to lose a truckload of dough to gain very little, if anything. The Megrez 90 is slightly faster and has a little more aperture, yet is a touch lighter than the TV85. I also think the Megrez has a nicer focuser. The TV85 may be 2% to 5% better optically than the Megrez but at this small aperture that gain is pretty academic anyway IMO. I would be taking that Megrez 90 and sticking it on a Vixen Porta Mount and selling the rest.
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I owned a NP101mm for about 4years now and love the scope. Nothing is like looking down a 31mm neg. eyepiece and sweeping the milky way with this scope.
Phil
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Phil,
Try this with the Fujinon 25x150 FMT-SX Binoculars. They kinda like smoke the TV combo into tomorrow. They also cost 4 times as much and weigh about 6 times as much, but the pain is worth the gain IMO. You haven't scanned the Milky Way until you have done it in the big Fuji's.
Cheers,
John B