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Cloudy and windy here now 😏

A lot of air movement tonight Can just make out the GRS

I have a really nice 7” Intes Micro Maksutov that gives great planetary views. But a standard 10” Skywatcher Dobsonian was better.

Thanks - 4” Refractor set up and ready to go .......

It’s not a typo - there is a C8-S and a C8-A I suspect the S was packaged with an equatorial mount and the A was OTA only. Possibly both OTA’s are the same ? Would suggest you ask Celestron......

Perhaps contacting the “s” shop may help clarify the code ?

Don’t worry - it’s not an issue 👍

I had an excellent OO 8” F/6 that was great on the planets, yours will be better 👍

I have found the Baader Neodymium filter to work very well on the planets.

Mega 👍👍😁

Hello Jon, My father passed away two years ago so I can understand how you feel at the moment. Your dad had some very nice telescopes that you may feel better about selling to astronomers who will use and value them rather than a dealer who will just be looking to make a profit. As already suggested, talking to the members of your local astronomy club may help. I am sure the scopes would sell if you advertised them on this site or perhaps Ukastronomy buysell. Personally I would have bought the 6” Skymax from you but I suspect you live in Cornwall so it’s a bit too far Best of luck

x130 - x150 at the moment but you must use a neutral density filter.

Brilliant sketch 👍👍

@MSammon Are the planets very low where you live - if so any telescope is going to struggle to show good planetary detail at the moment. You will have to wait until autumn 2020 if you live in the UK before a planet (Mars) is high enough for good results. You have an excellent 10” planetary scope but as the planets are low then try to keep magnification below x150, this will give a very bright image in your 10” scope so you will need to use a neutral density filter - I used a 96-0.3 which gave great results in terms of improving contrast. As already mentioned you could make a simple off axis mask to stop your scope down - this would give you a 90mm APO for no cost 😁

Looking at the photos on the FLO website I would suggest a short OTA up to 5kg will be fine. I suspect a C8 with dewshield, finder, diagonal and eyepiece may be a little too heavy for the AZ5.

Thats odd - FLO website says the Skywatcher AZ5 has a 5kg capacity 🤔

@Paz Hello, did you figure collimation out ?

Great info John, thanks

Hello @johninderby I am interested in this scope, could you answer a few questions please ? Does the Bresser have the same rubber o-ring as the Skywatcher 127 at the rear ? Are the rear plate and rear opening plastic or metal ? How many screws are used to adjust collimation ? Thanks in advance

Oh dear, what a shame

The advantage of the Maks is that they are much shorter than the 90mm refractor so I think stability will be just the same if not better - it may be worth a try

I have had both the 8” F/6 Skywatcher and the 8” F/6 Orion Optics scopes (1/10th wave) The Orion was only slightly better than the Skywatcher and not worth the massive price difference. So I would recommend the Skywatcher 8” F/6

The guys on Cloudynights may know some good places

Your welcome sir 👍🙂

If you cannot get good focus at x125 then one or all of the following may be the cause: 1. Scope needs collimating - how does the airy disk look at perfect focus . 2. Scope needs longer to cool down 3. Very active Jet stream I suspect it’s number 3 - it may be best to do an online check of the Jetstream before observing