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Originally Posted by beren
Not only do i have a Meade but damn its a Schmidt-cassegrain , must stop enjoying myself whilst using it then  |
No, just ignore the scope fascists. There's always someone around trying to spoil someone elses fun. I am very happy with the quality and features of my LX90. I wouldn't mind a large aperture Dob, as well, or a high quality refractor. However, I wouldn't replace my scope with any of them as it has obvious advantages over the others as they have over SCTs: they're all good and have their uses. A useful book on Schmidt-Cassegrains which dispels some of the negative myths re: SCTs is Michael Covington's "How to Use a Computerized Telescope". He argues that many claims regarding optical quality of SCTs are simply false or at least very exaggerated. Yes Meade and Celestron market aggressively and have been for 20+ years but having owned a Meade for awhile now it's quite obvious to me they make a quality product and from reading many reviews of older SCTs both companies have overcome problems of the earlier models.