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Old 23-07-2013, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Steffen View Post
The complication of this thread is that we've been arguing over three corners – expensive frac (high quality, limited usefulness) vs SW frac (to me as useful as tits on a bull) vs Dob (very useful, not lasting forever but cheap).

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Steffen.
This is the only point I would disagree on.

Limited usefulness for a quality refractor... I vehemontly disagree there. If I want to see the faint and whispy, I'll image it (and not have diffraction artifacts). If I want to have exceptional views of the Moon and Planets, I will just drop in an eyepiece. I find viewing DSO's in all but the most behemoth of reflectors absolutely useless anyway.

As I have mentioned before, the ONLY reflector I miss is my 180mm Maksutov - a good scope, but not without it's drawbacks too (image shift, average quality of construction, LONG cool down etc).
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