Takahashi FS60C or WO 66SD APO

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

you need the flattner to cure this

I already have the 0.8 flattener reducer that I've been hoping to try on the Orion ED80, so that is taken care of. I wonder if it would work in the Tak as well.

I already have a number of adapters and extensions as I have the WO 10:1 focuser on the Orion and it doesn't quite come to focus fully racked out. With a Meade 6.3 reducer just comes to focus fully racked in. (not a good reducer to use with it though)

Nice image John. Is the red around some of the brighter stars the colour fringing you are talking about? Strange, my experience has been only blue fringing, not red.

[JohnH]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Nice image John. Is the red around some of the brighter stars the colour fringing you are talking about? Strange, my experience has been only blue fringing, not red.

Thanks, and no I think that was just me overprocessing and causing the halos...like I said I do not find it noticeable/unacceptable there is the triplet version for those who do...you are going to love either of these scopes...

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I'd love both of these scope John, I know. But I can only afford one of them. And at this time it isn't the one I think I'd really really love




I think I'll go to Duckadang, ruminate a bit, try and get a look see or even an image see through either of these scopes (Definately not bigger ones ) and see how the finances are when I get back. I just hope that none of the Vendors there have both the scopes or I may not be game to go home

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Well I should have bought before I went away. Who would have thought the Aus $ would have taken a nose dive the way it has done in the past week. Sheesh $0.86 US to $0.75 in a week. Fortunately it looks like it might be on the way back up again

But in the mean time I've come across this little pearler, the Equinox 66. Anyone have any experience with this scope as an imaging scope. I've emailed Steve, but I thought I might ask here anyway to keep the thread alive, interesting ( ) and useful to later viewers searching for similar info.