Buying a Meade LX90 O'seas. Bad Idea?

[FredSnerd (Claude)]

Originally Posted by TheDecepticon

If you are only going to do visual, I'm still going to ask why you don't by your self a nice easy to use 12" or 16" Dob mounted Newt and chuck Argo Navis on it? Just my opinion, but you are getting caught up in the hype of a modern telescope and with AN it is near the same as go to, and you will appreciate the bigger objects in the wider field of view. Any way, may you purchase what your heart desires!

Yeah I haven ruled out the dob and looking at it more closely now. The 12" skywatcher collapsible black dimond looks like a nice unit and there is an AN setup for it

[FredSnerd (Claude)]

Originally Posted by coldspace

Yep, one heavy unit the 12 inch Lx200 is, if your are getting older I would advise getting something smaller.
Have alook at the CPC 9.25, alot lighter and great on the planets, and deep sky from a dark site.

The difference between a 12 and 9.25 from light polluted environment will be minimal for you.

The 9.25 has a smaller central obstruction ratio ( I think, correct me if I am wrong guys) so apparantly this gives this scope great optics, a friend of mine has a 9.25 tube ontop of a EQ6 pro for his portable dark sky scope, and the views through it are vey nice indeed.

I now have my 12 LX200 on permanent mount in my observatory and will probally get a 9.25 on EQ6 pro for my dark sky portable setup.

Regards Matt.

Yeah Matt I have always heard very good things about the 9.25. The trouble with celestron is they are soo bloody expensive. the 9.25 is only about $200 less then the meade 12 in. Im thinking a dob may be the way to go now fitted with AN