Hi Craig , My old club back in NZ . Northland astronomical Club . has a Saxon 6 inch f13 . nearly a 2000mm focal lenght so a 10mm eyepiece gives 200x , awsome for the moon and planets . Really good on double stars because 6 inches is a good amount of light to magnify .
Hope you are still with me ?
The optics of ours was as sharp and well corrected as any 6 inch scope , myself and other more experenced observers have looked thru , I have an awsome 6 inch f8 refractor and the Saxon mak was right there , because of its effortless , easy high magnification , and here lies their problem , its not saxon , sky watcher , meade of any other manufactures problem ,
its in the Mak design .
High powers are easy , that ='s small field of view , and that ='s, harder to use as a beginner .
But the main Mak fall down is the cool down time , eg the glass has to reach equiblirum , and the Mak's have
lots of nice glass to cool down.
Our Saxon Mak is a really good scope but the cool down times put a lot of people off , hence a small refractor to use while the Mak cools ?
Good scopes but not for every one .
Brian.