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Originally Posted by Alchemy
Interesting.......
I will start with my thoughts on the 8 inch, firstly it can produce an exceptional image, but I have seen very few in reality, from memory the earlier ones suffered from internal reflections, Pauls m16 was probably the best I saw, no one really put it to good use ( I can be corrected here as I spent some time away from IIS) other than a few bright image objects, it just didn't see the light of day..... I guess my question is why didn't anyone shoot faint galaxies with it?.
The imaging train is a complete horror with it extending waaaaaaaay back, given this is supposed to be an imaging scope it seemed a lack of design thought.
Onto the 10 inch, going by your critique, it has obvious design flaws, again it's obviously built to a budget, but when you have to throw away 1/3 of it's value just to get it up to usability.... I strongly suspect it can produce a very sharp image, but will anyone persevere with it ? I know the other scope mentioned is dearer, but you have been around for a while now and tried all sorts of gear, you will wish eventually thats the one you bought. Quality comes at a high price but thats what is most pleasurable to use.
I hope you take some great images with the new scope and give it ( to me anyway) a far better report.
I watch with exceptional interest to see what you can do with it.
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Hi Clive, As you are probably aware I had an 8" version and to be honest it didn't get a whole lot of use and once I purchased the 11002 CCD I found the whole imaging thing with the little 2" focuser to be more effort than it was worth. Again I still maintain the optics were very pleasing but the same overall faults were evident in the 8". I really didn't come into this one totally blind of the faults and was prepared to purchase the extras required to get it all working.
To be perfectly honest I have yet to purchase any scope which has fitted it's designed purpose 100%. Some adapters , focuser upgrades, be it a robofocus unit or some extra glass. The FSQ is the best so far and even that didn't come with the adapters required to use the extender or reducer even though the scope was ordered from the factory with a matching set of glass.
The big upgrade for me was the 10" model comes with a 3" focuser and should accommadate the full frame CCD better.