Well the scope continues to perform excellently, though the weather in the southern states has been a bit cloudy the last few months.
Spoke to Steve Kennedy the other day and he was really pleased that I had got the mirror into a working telescope so quickly. Apparently a lot of his mirrors go to big dob builders that have looong lead times for completion.
Also mentioned that he might be going to even faster focal ratios with the development of a new special Parracorr for F3-ish mirrors.
The current parracorr works fine in this scope. Images are much flatter and sharper than a F5 without.
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