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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Bah!!...plenty of room!
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Not quite. I managed to get everything going for a few hours tonight. What a relief. UNTIL it came to meridian flip time. I was hoping ASiair’s automated flip would work despite the narrow clearance with this scope. Nope. I could always do it manually of course but that defeats much of the purpose of the ASiair. If this OTA was about 100mm shorter, it would be fine. But it ain’t!
Bugger! So my 8inch newt will go back into the cupboard and I’ll go back to using my widefield rig - which will work just fine.
I might end up buying something like an 8 inch Celestron HD Edge or similar. I’m fairly sure it would be OK. Does anyone have one? Can you tell me how far back the focal plane is behind the back of the scope?