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Oops a little late seeing this one, Good little review Paul, I have just bought the BT-200 which is basically the same unit.
Only gripe with it so far is the collimation knobs at the back of the scope. I am thinking I am going to have to modify this part of the scope pretty soon. I know this is a budget sort of scope, but the design looks to be rush drawn on a piece of toilet paper. The whole mirror mount assembly looks like it need beefing up a bit, springs replaced and oh boy those mirror locking knobs, why are they the same size and shape as the collimation knobs? Anyway, other than this I think it's a pretty good scope, my HEQ5Pro handles it with ease and although my skywatcher finderguider doesn't exactly fit the mount it still holds reasonably well, but this is not a design fault by GSO I suspect.
I am still very much getting to know this scope, but so far I am very happy with it's performance, as a budget scope. 8 out of 10 GSO.
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