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They're a nice scope and the EQ5 handles them well. I find I often prefer it to the 10" newt, especially for lunar/planetary. For DSOs of course it can't beat the 16". Coming from reflectors I initially found the purple haze to be intrusive but I put a Baader FringeKiller on the front of the diagonal and now it looks great. Mine is a Celestron and the weak point was the focusser. After a couple of years I got a motorised Moonlite and the difference is stunning. I reckon I get a half mag improvement in limiting mag just by being able to get the focus spot on. I've tried a Chromocor (at least I assume that's what it was - a corrector that goes in front of the diagonal) and I don't know that was any better than the Fringekiller, but to be fair I didn't try them side by side.
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