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Old 04-09-2011, 07:32 PM
Poita (Peter)
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My experience is extremely limited, but I have been playing with a 14" SCT and an 8" and a 10" SCT over the past few weeks.

One thing is, that for imaging the planets, seeing appears to be everything.
If your seeing is pretty average, the planets can actually come out worse in the 14" vs the 8".
I'm not sure why this would be, but when the seeing gets close to perfect, the bigger scope smokes the smaller ones, but in average to poor seeing there doesn't seem to be a lot of advantage to a C14 vs a C8.
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