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Originally Posted by Poita
People keep bagging out SCTs, but the best planetary stuff I see tends to come from SCT owners.
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Originally Posted by Troy
A lot of people from around the world produce very good images from mass produced sct scopes. For the price you pay they are not bad at all. Mind doesn't seem to suffer from image shift or mirror flop etc..., maybe the larger sct's suffer from this 
The high focal ratio and being a compact scope is really handy for me as I set up my equipment, image and then everything goes back inside the house  |
SCT's and Newt's can both do excellent work for planetary imaging.
The 14" SCT's are well known across the world now as most of the world's best use them (Damian Peach among them). They have long focal length, plenty of aperture.
But there's plenty of the world's best using large newt's - Anthony (bird), Trevor (Quark) and Wes Higgins to name but 3.
They each have their strengths and weaknesses.