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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Andy your best bet is to sell your existing scope and pick up an FSQ106ED.
It is the king of widefield scopes and is freely available. The reducer allows super wide imaging if you want to do that as well.
Nothing else really comes close except the TEC110 flourite F5.6.
FSQ 106 can take any camera. Most of those smaller scopes lock you into small chips and don't have quality accessories and you could be setting yourself up for constant gear fiddle and eventual upset and selling at a loss to get one later anyway.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg, good advice - yes I take the point and will probably buy a small 'scope to play with for season or two and then sell both and get an FSQ.
I've heard form a user that focus is super critical with those taks and as I use a mac and have to do everything manually, including focussing, it's unlikely to be a happy marriage at this point in time. Eventally I'll have to bite the bullet and go the PC route, but I'm not ready for that yet!
Wonderful report on camera lenses btw - may I recommend you post that in the Projects and Articles section for all to enjoy
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Originally Posted by Octane
The FSQ-106N is even better than the ED with no colour casts.
How about a Takahashi FS-60CB? 60mm aperture, f/5.9 and 354mm focal length. Reasonably-affordable.
If you go any Takahashi route, be prepared for the nightmare that is the adapters.
H
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mmm - was briefly tempted but was put off by the adapter thing. Doublet vs triplet, does it need a flattener? etc not sure
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Originally Posted by Retrograde
Someone with much more experience than me mentioned that Peter Tan in Hong Kong would be a good place to source one. Check out his site if you are not already aware of it:
http://www.tan14.com/gears.htm
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Thanks will email - Borg looks incredibly complicated though - wading through lots of different components, adapters, reducers, tubes, focussers etc.
So far the WO looks like the preferred complete package.