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Originally Posted by janoskiss
Thanks Dave. Never considered an SCT or MCT a viable option, but I suppose, why not. I've never looked through one before though, except for Xtreme John's Meade.
The Dob just doesn't perform on demand even after having been outside for an hour. I'm sure it's a problem of cooling. The scope is stored in pretty much the warmest spot in the house (no room anywhere else).
How much of a problem is cooling with the closed tube designs of SCTs or MCTs? And what's the advantage of SCT over MCT and vice versa? 
PS. I should remove the "not-so-" from the thread title at this point. |
Steve,
The sct and mak will give you a larger image scale due to there longer FL .
Cooling can be a problem and I can't comment on the Mak to much as i only just got it. With my sct I had I never really found this a problem. But going from a warm room to cool outside the sct will not preform as well till it cooled.
One big advantage Mak's and Sct's have is the large F ratio and FL.
This tends to using 25 - 10 mm eyepieces for high power.
Also cheap Ep's work well. But you have great Ep's so no problem thier.
Do some research on the net re the mak and sct on the eq 5 mount. I think you maybe happy with that sort of combination.
As for grab and go my set up is ideal for it. You can put a sct on your mount and it will be a good grab and go also.
