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Originally Posted by TechnoViking
Celestron bashing thread ?
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I don't think anyone is bashing Celestron - Just gently ribbing the marketing of what superficially apears to be little more than a stunt. Poking an SCT through a window of a space station in low Earth orbit does seem a little 'Heath Robinson'.
HOWEVER (Dont flame me yet!) If you look at the telescope itself on the SERVIR site, you will notice that it has no attachements at the rear, and is focussed by moving the mirror not with a microfocusser. This means that what ever they are using to capture the image is attached to the front and probably running at f2. It may be a hyperstar setup or the camera may have a built in corrector, but Celestron are the only one out of the pair of SCT makers that offer the farstar interface out of the box and could provide a new scope without anyone making any mods.
Anyone seen a picture of the front?