Hey Guys, One thing that I think is often assumed is that the telescope made in china 10 years ago would represent what is being sold today. The 6" F8 achro USED to be an absolute dog. Lots of colour. These were the old type with non-collimatable cell.
The new 6" F8 synta scope with the collimatable cell is a good scope. The cell is excellent with very low colour almost semi-apo like and the spherical correction and contrast you get is well worth $1500, probably more in my opinion. I know people who really like this scope and others that which they had never sold it.
Don't spit too much on the new version until you have looked through one. Blind reviews are not worth the computer screen they are written on.
I would love to own the new version, on DSO's under outer suburban skies it would give some very pleasing very sharp views.
Still, the only refractor you can point at venus is an Apo. Infact, the only scope full stop in my opinion. For planets a long focal length triplet is the best.
