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Old 29-05-2011, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by koputai View Post
Well, no they won't.

The thing is, people with big Dobs want fast f ratio's and relatively
rich fields, which you can't get with the Nasmyth design.

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Jason.
The CDK700 is f6.6, which is fairly fast and wide...but not a f4 or f3.5 admittedly. That would be pushing things with a Nasmyth unless you made the primary optical path ridiculously short.
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