Funny thing with the wife... I was all OOOH AHHHH in the front yard setup, and she heard me from the kitchen. Came out for a look (arms still crossed LOL). Naturally showed her Saturn. She said it was SO much smaller than in the Maksutov, and why the hell did you buy this one? I said, look again, and see the banding... and the shadow... and...
It went over her head a bit (she is a psychiatrist, so is pretty knowledgeable though), and kepot saying the mak is much better. Well, yeah, it gives bigger images for the same eyepiece, but the contrast and definition in the ED80 is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO superior.
They both have their place, and I don't and won't sell either. I prefer to use the ED80, but the Mak sure shines when you want to go DEEPER and gather light like the proverbial bucket.
I'll get an Orion mini from Bintel or Sirius, and go from there
My alignments are good, but still reveal a LITTLE trailing. I need more accuracy (was going to off-axis it, but getting lazy). Been even too lazy of late to do drift alignments.