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Originally Posted by Tulloch
My dream scope - hope it works out for you. The next couple of years will be the best for planetary imaging for a long time ...
What other bits have you got?
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I've got a Hubble Optics 16" F5 coming. I'm hoping it will solve several issues for me.
One is that I don't really have a good scope for planetary work. Of my other three scopes, the esprit 120 loses too much light before the appropriate image scale can be achieved, the RC10 lacks the required contrast (it's a deep sky astrograph, really) and my current 16" is manual and doesn't track the planets.
I also realised that I like the looking at stuff more than the process of star-hopping and finding it. Plus I won't have to adjust the scope to keep the object in the field, which I'm hoping will be less distracting.
I've got a bunch of barlows and powermates to get the right image scale, TV 2x, 2.5x and 4x but I mostly use an ES 3x at the moment because that's what I need and TV don't make one.
Cheers
Markus