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Originally Posted by astro744
Forgive me John but I thought from your earlier post you were endorsing fast ‘scopes to eliminate ladders yet you are happy to climb up to a 25” f5.
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I think you read something there that I didn't actually say. My comment related to the general trend over the last 15 years amongst telescope purchasers and telescope makers. To give you some perspective of the trend, only 2 of the first 30 scopes Peter Read built, were faster than F4.5. Of the last 30 scopes Peter has built, only 3 have been slower than F4.5. Of the last 23 scopes he has built only 3 have been slower than F4. I didn't say anywhere that it was my preference, just that this was where just about everyone else was going. My comment related to the fact that just about everyone in the astronomical community was going to faster thus lower scopes, so why would you want to raise the scope several inches by using an EQ platform, as opposed to a Servocat, which also provides GOTO which an EQ platform can't do.
Cheers
John B