I own and adore an APM 130 mm refractor and believe that it is the bees knees for me. I balanced quality/availability and size...to me it was the scope to fit the bill. I don't do Astrophotography so I can not speak from experience on it's qualities for that use but for visual it is fantastic.
I would have loved to have gotten an Astro Physics of this size but in terms of availability this was not an option for me. Now that I have the APM I can not imagine how an AP could be better.
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