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Originally Posted by DaveO
While I will primarily do visual work with it, I want to be able to move into some astrophotoghy as well in the future. Nothing obsessive (yet). I also need the scope to be portable, as 3 or 4 unfortunately placed street lights make observing from my house a pipe-dream.
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I My budget is $2500-$3000
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How can we possibly cite eddie's permanent observatory as a benckmark here ($20-30K?) with many thousands of hours dedicated effort to get those results. Get back to the original requirement guys! Mainly visual with photography as a potential, not the other way round.
You may lose contrast with a schmit Newt, but with 10" to play with, it's not so bad. If 80mm is so great, why do we all own 10"+ scopes?
We're not all pro's here, some of us just dabble!
(Sorry for being a bore
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