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Seeking advice for 8" visual OTA. GSO RC or SCT?
Hi everyone,
I'm interested in only visual (for now) viewing to set up in the back yard. I want an easy and quick setup that can plonk onto a permanent mounting post. The actual mount I will decide later.
From what I have read and understand, seems an SCT is the overall winner for ease of use and applicability to visual Astro. Compactness, optical quality, collimation, aperture etc.
So the choices I see are;
GSO RC f/8 which is an amazing price
Celestron/Meade 8" (EdgeHD/ACF) type OTA
Now the SCT OTAs are not attractive for their price, especially here in OZ. (Yes, I would really prefer the "corrected" optics for SCT).
The RC seems too good to resist but I have read reviews on these GSOs that remark it is not suitable for visual work.
I don't really understand that since the SCTs are f/10 and the f/8 RC should be "better" for a wider field.
Why would the RCs not be a good comparison to the SCTs for visual work?
Any comments/advice please?
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