AS an SCT user of some years it is not really a surprise to me. I just wish the Edge HD was available when I bought mine, pretty sure they came along later, I have had mine for about 9 years.
I have always been happy with my C925, even now pushing it really hard as a photography tube.
Wait 'til you look through a set of Russian made Maksutov optics! You'll damn near wet yourself!
Me old mate Wavytone is coming by my place with his Santel Mak, and I'll have my Intes 715D out too. Gonna hear some strains of the Russian national anthem quietly playing in the background... Where's my copy of Hunt For Red October... ?
Wait 'til you look through a set of Russian made Maksutov optics! You'll damn near wet yourself!
Me old mate Wavytone is coming by my place with his Santel Mak, and I'll have my Intes 715D out too. Gonna hear some strains of the Russian national anthem quietly playing in the background... Where's my copy of Hunt For Red October... ?
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Does that include an Intes MK-65 .... hang on , I'll just check my strides ..
But people nock the SC and MK for viewing the Moon, well I have read that, it is amazing.
It's all down to personal preference and have looked through many different types of scopes and for me refractors are King, There's no right or wrong it's what does it for you for example i bought a 10'' dob listening to all the hype and i hated the damn thing and couldn't get rid of it quick enough but are they wrong and i'm right? No way i just like to look at the stars a certain way......
Meanwhile., back in the room ... Flash / Wavy and Mental cannot decide who's gonna show their equipment first .............
Huh ? Too busy using it... it’s a clear fine autumn evening with no wind, too good to miss. Seeing isn’t great but still good enough to go exploring the moon at 300-450X. These two scopes really get into gear when the others are running out of puff.
Meanwhile., back in the room ... Flash / Wavy and Mental cannot decide who's gonna show their equipment first .............
Huh ? Too busy outside using it... it’s a clear fine autumn evening with no wind, too good to miss. You lot should be doing likewise ... though Jeremy has an excuse, being in the other side of the planet.
Sadly, we have rain & cloud due to Ex Tropical Cyclone Ann sitting off the coast of FNQ...
In the absence of being able to do any observing.. well, I got bored...
How'd it go anyways...?
Cheers
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Huh ? Too busy outside using it... it’s a clear fine autumn evening with no wind, too good to miss. You lot should be doing likewise ... though Jeremy has an excuse, being in the other side of the planet.
You will need a better scope as the moon is shrinking according to today’s news.
I think the expression “ you two had better get a room “ is US humour / slang, suggesting a relationship could be more intimate than the speaker thought proper.
Interesting that John Cleese said that calling someone a snowflake, another of those expressions, suggested the speaker was a sociopath ,and was attacking any normal sympathy.
You should join us for a taste test, honey. You may like it too...
Jeremy, it's like Ray said, Wavy, Flash and I were getting very chummy, so maybe we wpuld like to be alone together to be more intimate with each other
Marc, Bronte Woman would just make the room crowded...
Which scope one prefers is a personal choice as Andrew says. It is as much scope design, aperture, quality, EP choice and preferences, experience, AND one's own eyes too. Many people forget that our eyes are an active part of the optical train, and each with their own set of aberrations. I'm sure a 170mm good quality refractor could throw up a lunar image every bit as good as my Mak, but I don't have one nor access to one. And in the end every scope is a compromise.
I like Maks - a LOT - but there is no contest for me as a refractor will always be my go-to instrument.
The central obstruction in any reflecting telescope bugs me - yes, I can plainly see it irrespective of whether it is a Mak, Klevstov, SCT, Dall-Kirkham. I can irritatingly see the loss of contrast in the C.O area, and once I see it, I can't unsee it. I have looked at planets and Luna with 300mm Mewlons, and was not awed or gob-smacked in the least, much preferring the view through a 150 or 130mm Tak TOA or the AstroPhysics Star 12 (120mm doublet) I had at the time.
I care less one iota about aperture, so I remain content with my 106mm refractor. With it's Petzval system, it is completely flat-field to the edge and so 3D-porthole like view I don't need anything else (those who say you don't use an astrograph for visual are wrong and mis-informed - Newt astrograph vs refractor astrograph is completely different)
Good stuff Jeremy 
