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I've been impressed by some of the images from the 8 inch. Paul has shown that. If you can sort that star elongation at the edges your laughing. A flattener of some sort should do the trick.
They do represent good bang for your buck, kind of like a Subaru WRX telescope.
The Vixen VMC260 is an interesting competitor. I'd go the Vixen as the trend nowadays is for corrected compound scopes like ASA Newts with the Keller corrector, Planewave CDK with its doublet corrector, Ceravolo
corrected Dall Kirkham, Hyperion - corrected Cassegrain. The A&M RCs are good bang for your buck too for a carbon truss RC but they also need a flattener that they sell. They also have a nice reducer. So does Planewave now. This area of the market is heating up with Meade ACF and now Celestron HD optics. There's a lot of choice and some very nice gear on offer.
These RCs all need flatteners to sharpen up their star sizes off axis although the 12.5 inch RCOS I had did very well without it.
Greg.
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