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Originally Posted by Satchmo
Perhaps you just enjoy the freedom from the possibilities that larger aperture offer ?
In my experience out in the field the refractor lovers seem to be satisfied with fairly dim views of fairly bright objects with no descent image scale and don't look at anything much beyond that - but they are passionate about the 'quality' of what little they see.
I like to see most globulars for instance resolved into a blaze of stars - my 120ED resolves only a handful due to poor light gathering power - though it is sharp as a `Tak' - it sits in its box most of the time.
I've been observing 40 years now and I really don't get it with the refractor thing- honestly . I want to see faint stars , I want copious detail on planets , star knots and dust lanes in galaxies etc - and for me that doesn't hint below 8" aperture .....Perhaps someone can enlighten me ?  |
That's easy to answer - you need to actually buy a top shelf refractor such as an AP130GT (for example) and spend a decent amount of time actually using one rather than repeatedly telling and thus convincing yourself that your ED120 is just as good.
As I keep on saying over and over and over again. If the top tier refractors werent significantly better then companies like Televue, Astro Physics, Takahashi, APM etc etc would be out of business decades ago and we would all be using Synta tech ED120s
