You may be right there Tony as Luke at Andrews mentioned something similar when I brought this one .
The optics in mine are first rate ,and at 200x give a perfect aeiry disc with one faint ring , and the in and out of focus are very similar , just a little spherical aperation seen at the 200x on the outer ring , very , very small and I aint bothered by this .
The moon last night was totaly colour free and when it was just out of the field of view of my 22mm Pan the light scatter was very well supressed , also the sky was black around the moon so the baffeling is of a good design and well exicuted . .
All in all for $850 delivered its a great scope , sexy and very well made , small enough to be carry on luggage .
Oh yes one more thing the focuser is very good out of the box , a seldom seen thing on todays mass produced chinese scopes ..
I am extremely happy with it .
Brian.
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Originally Posted by casstony
I suspect this is the same scope as the Megrez 88 f/5.6, but a couple hundred cheaper - it would be interesting to have them side by side to see if the view is the same.
Yea Flash it was to good to pass up , I used it last night and it has very good optics and is easy to focus with its bino looking focuser and eyepiece , yep very happy with both ...
TV on the horizon ?? there mate ??
Brian.
Yes Matt , I hear you mate , these things can get very addictive , very fast !! .
Yes the moon has been good this month , I have been out most nights looking at it , super crisp and sharp in a refractor ....
Brian.
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Originally Posted by MattT
Hi Brian,
Another refractor sees the light WOOHOO. Can't have to many as you know Just been pointing my 4 and 6" scopes at the moon for the first time and very impressive too not much colour at all. Hope your beautiful black scope is giving great views.Love the illuminated finderscope.
Cheers, Matt
Just one thing ,, WO dont use FPL53 glass in the 88mm , as my LP90 does , so the similarity might end there ?
Brian.
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Originally Posted by dannat
Tony it would seem like that, i wonder why WO thought decreasing aperture from 90 to 88 would make much diff esp when they have the M90. i would have thought a triplet 85 would have made more marketing sense
Chance of a good lense set ??? ..
I got a full 90 mm , .
Yea a compro would be good ,
see how this design is still kicking ??
Get better at quality .
Yes Chinese people can do this ... Fast . ..
Its life today with china awakening ..
Nostradamas , said in the 1400's ,, this .
'China is a sleeping giant ,,,
Let it sleep...
Because when she awakenes..
He will shake the world .'
Yep . .
Brian.
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Originally Posted by dannat
Tony it would seem like that, i wonder why WO thought decreasing aperture from 90 to 88 would make much diff esp when they have the M90. i would have thought a triplet 85 would have made more marketing sense
Mate , Had to be done by hand , as our Boilermaker work shop has a small ******* file on that bench ...
True Flash , cut a filed by hand at 60 degrees , it works well with the new fpl53 90 mm owner ,, do ? I hear 85 ....?
Brian.
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Originally Posted by FlashDrive
Nice bit of machine work there Brian. It's always nice to do a ' professional ' job for your gear.
Hows the holiday and new scope ....Good for you , .
Brian.
Not much happening here ... rain... cloudy .... unable to have a good go at it yet.
Scope never came with a ' vixen ' style dovetail bar to suit the TeleVue Clam-Shell ... Rang Bintel ... sending me one next week.
Have it mounted on a ' heavy duty ' Tripod ... no slow motion controls ... have to keep ' nudging ' it to keep ' target ' in eyepiece view..... just a bit irritating to say the least.
Anyway .... next week should be better once the part arrives.
Brian. sh!t Brian wipe that smile off your face , .
Another perfect night up here .. ..
as Brian said ...
The DRY has come early ' this year ...
Enjoy mate.
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Originally Posted by FlashDrive
Not much happening here ... rain... cloudy .... unable to have a good go at it yet.
Scope never came with a ' vixen ' style dovetail bar to suit the TeleVue Clam-Shell ... Rang Bintel ... sending me one next week.
Have it mounted on a ' heavy duty ' Tripod ... no slow motion controls ... have to keep ' nudging ' it to keep ' target ' in eyepiece view..... just a bit irritating to say the least.
Anyway .... next week should be better once the part arrives.
hi Brian, I had a Megrez 88 out a couple nights ago - don't know what glass it has but there was negligible CA in focus with green on one side and magenta on the other. focus was touchy but I didn't have the benefit of low gear - need to pull the focus shaft apart for adjustment. views seemed quite sharp with no obvious aberrations, eg. Decentering, astigmatism. haven't measured the objective but I'm away from home ATM. could only go to 100X but light and dark features were visible on mars
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Originally Posted by brian nordstrom
No takers on the WO Megrez ? Comparo , there must be a few out there ? ..
Brian.
Thanks Tony for that , there must be a differance as mine easily holds 200x plus and is almost totally colour free , as you say there are no other abberations seen at high powers while doing a star test (5mm lanthium and ultima 2x barlow ) exactly 200x .
Not bad at all considering its working at f/5.5 ..
Brian.
Just ordered a LP 3mm planetary eyepiece from Andrews today and I will let you all know how it performs in the 90mm APO, when it arrives , only $59. a good price.
My other lowest fl eyepiece is my LV 4mm , I can see another comparo comming up .
166x without a barlow it will be interesting ? and WOAW!! 317x in the 127 triplet ..
I will post a photo when it arrives .
Yes "Black' is cool , but its a blardy "Finger Print" magnet .Oh well you cant have it all I suppose ? .
Brian.
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Originally Posted by MattT
Hi Brian,
Another refractor sees the light WOOHOO. Can't have to many as you know Just been pointing my 4 and 6" scopes at the moon for the first time and very impressive too not much colour at all. Hope your beautiful black scope is giving great views.Love the illuminated finderscope.
Cheers, Matt
Hi everyone-I'm new on this site.
Have just purchased Long Perng 90mm, and am reasonably happy with it. I haven't done a lot with it as yet, but bright deep sky stuff is impressive-but I have a feeling it is a bit soft on planetary observing. I'll reserve judgement until I have used it under better conditions.
Luke at Andrews was unsure of the glass used, so I contacted the factory, and they say it is FPL51. Colour correction seems pretty good though
You may be right there Tony as Luke at Andrews mentioned something similar when I brought this one . 
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very happy with both ..
fast !! .
No takers on the WO Megrez ? Comparo , there must be a few out there ?
Chance of a good lense set ??? .. 
Hows the holiday and new scope ....Good for you , 
Mate , Had to be done by hand , as our Boilermaker work shop has a small ******* file on that bench ... 
Not much happening here ... rain... cloudy .... unable to have a good go at it yet.
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