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Allan, thanks for you comments and I have to agree with you as well on the Lagoon. I'm in the throes of deciding if I should upgrade my scope but I don't know which way to go - longer or shorter focal length, reflector or refractor. Each day I change my mind!! The one thing that is certain is that the 8" newt does the job really well and it gets harder to justify changing my scope. Of course I could always have two....
Cheers,
Mario
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Keep the scope & just buy a small refractor for wide fields.
I see the fine work that Louie does with his Baby Q.
The 8" f6 is good for galaxies as it has a large enough image scale per pixel & is still fast enough to pick up the faint ones
but also does a nice job on nebulas ( although they don't often fit in the fov.)
I can't wait to try mine out with a QHY9 mono that I'll pick up in a few days.
Mono here I come!