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Hi
Aperture fever:
View from a 12" LX200 in an observatory in the outer suburbs of Sydney was about 2 magnitudes worse than the view from an ETX-125 at the ASNSW local dark site Crago. The 12" of course was better at a dark site but it was too heavy to use regularly so it reposed always on a permanent mount in the observatory.
My advce is that if you do not have a dark permanent site for the 12" you will do far better and see more with an 8" that can be transported and easily set up at a dark site. At 75 I can no longer lift a 12" by myself but I can still handle my 10" LX200 in the field by myself. I have given up viewing from home. Crago is only half an hour away and the difference is worth the trouble.
PS I also have a 16" LB that I have only used once because I need help to transport it although I can still set it up myself.
Barry
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