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Old 12-09-2011, 01:42 AM
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I had and used an 10" LX5/6 for many years.
the Lx6 had a handcontroller which could "integrate" with the digital readouts - which I retrofitted to a base Lx5 unit.
They worked well, for the era, but nowadays there are much better solutions ie Lx200 etc
The Lx6 OTA came in both the f10 and f6.3 versions.
I had the 10" f6.3 for three or four years, mounted on a NEQ6pro mount.
It was a very good performer, but did need very critical collimation...
I enjoyed it very much.
I sold both the 8" LX75 OTA and the 10" (f6.3) OTA last year and went to my very first ( in over forty years of amateur astronomy!!) Celestron..a C9.25
I'm very happy with this one - it's a keeper!!
So,
If it is definately a Lx6 (larger handcontroller and f6.3 optics)
then I'd definately want to do at least a Ronchi test on the optics and accept that digital readouts/ GOTO are not part of the action.
HTH
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