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Actually Mike I was stunned when I made an animated gif of the same area of sky taken with your top end 6" refractor and the new AG12. As a test it was fair as the same person and camera produced both images. Even though it was early days with the AG12 the resolution was almost as good as your 6" refractor. This is a stunning result for optics as fast as this.
Your subsequent images are a real testament to the performance of your new system.
I would imagine that now you have tweaked everything the AG12 almost holds it own against the much slower refractor for resolution and trounces it for speed.
You are an evil man Mike after leading me into temptation and succeeding you are now tempting other innocent 'young' lads.
If I can produce images on a par with yours with my new system I will be very happy. It will act as a complement to others high end systems as my interest is very high quality wide field mosaics.
I vaguely remember that a quick test for a reflector in the sixties and seventies was the abilty to see the four trapezium stars in Orion. In those days anything bigger than 8" was considered huge!
Bert
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