Binofied- It was just your sort of experience in your GSO 10" RC thread I was looking for when I called for peoples experience of the 12" RC earlier in this thread. I'd imagine that the larger you go the greater the opto-mechanical issues become, but at least all solvable with time and patience it seems with your 10".
Thanks Mark, yes I suppose the only thing to realise is that off the shelf it will not be perfect. For me, on the 10", it simply came down to a me being silly and not listening to myself. I knew in my heart that the focuser was not up to scratch but was wasting lots of time wishing and trying to make it work. I should have simply gone and got the Moonlite or Feathertouch straight away. I also didn't know if the TS2.5-Flat would work as I didn't find any images with a full size chip taken through it and felt all the other flatteners were not up to the mark being 2", I just wasted time before actually buying it. The 16" BTW will have far less field curvature and may even be ok on a big chip without a flattener this is one area where bigger is better. You would need a proper mount, be prepared to go and spend serious coin on the mount to take advantage of this scope. I think it will be a winner, time will tell :-)
Replacing the focuser seems to be a pretty standard requirement on most scopes it would seem. Bigger does seem to be better with these, the bigger you get the smaller the % obstruction and the flatter the field.
If it is a truss design hopefully it won't take a mega mount. Brett had a big RC on his Mach1 and it wasn't even breathing heavy.
To resurrect this old post, it appears that the 12" GSO RC and 16" GSO RC are both about to be released with a tuss tube design. The 12" shipment has be delayed to co-inside with the availability of the 16" from Andrews Coms. Should be a very interesting set of scopes. Had seen an image just prior on a Dutch site and they look very shmick.
Allan
Last edited by allan gould; 17-10-2013 at 06:36 PM.
To resurrect this old post, it appears that the 12" GSO RC and 16" GSO RC are both about to be released with a tuss tube design. The 12" shipment has be delayed to co-inside with the availability of the 16" from Andrews Coms. Should be a very interesting set of scopes. Had seen an image just prior on a Dutch site and they look very shmick.
Allan
Yep heard the very same thing today Allan. I put my order in for a truss. I have the mirrors, just need the truss.
Paul
Seriously considering the 12" truss scope as it will function well (just) in the 2.3 meter observatory and will give me the light grasp that I have been looking for. Also the trusses are carbon fibre and thus should weigh considerably (?) less than the solid tube 12".
Decisions, decisions.
Paul are you converting your 12" to the truss model?
Allan
Paul
Seriously considering the 12" truss scope as it will function well (just) in the 2.3 meter observatory and will give me the light grasp that I have been looking for. Also the trusses are carbon fibre and thus should weigh considerably (?) less than the solid tube 12".
Decisions, decisions.
Paul are you converting your 12" to the truss model?
Allan
Yep I will convert the existing system I have to a new truss, assuming Jim Sheng will sell me a truss (he should, but there may be a catch, like the f ratio being slightly different).
think I will be going for the 12" truss scope at this stage. It looks really good and if the 10" is any guide then it should be excellent value for money. Just want more aperture, but who doesn't?
One thing is that it doesn't seem to have as much back focus as the current 10 and 12" scopes but maybe they just left the spacers out of the images.
Allan