Mr Spock

My 100mm is limited to 10.0 in my LP. I've arranged all my doubles charts to suit; I don't list doubles where the secondary is below 10.

Close pairs can be split if they are fairly even and seeing is good and you have high quality optics. The above scope has split 1.2" on a good night.

I have a 6" CC which gives me nothing extra over this scope both in terms of resolution and magnitude.

Zooms like the Svbony 3-8 are really useful if you have more than one scope. For example, on planetary, with my 100mm the 4mm and 3mm (4.4 and 3.5 actual) would be perfect, whereas with the 12" the 8, 7 and 6 would be just right. 

Better scopes don't come bundled with anything because they don't have to. Very few people buy a more advanced scope as their first so it's assumed you already have things like diagonals and eyepieces.

I'd also suggest you add the Svbony 3-8mm. It's a bargain eyepiece of good quality.

CF tubes look really nice 👍

Nice detail for a 125 👍

That's a lovely image 👍The dust shows really well. I like how delicate the centre is - looks very natural.

Lovely image quality 👍

As this area of the sky is affected by interstellar reddening, have you thought about producing a version to compensate for this? I've seen a few 'compensated' images, and while not accurate to the eye, they do look rather nice.

Nice starter scope. I can't help with the technical stuff as I'm 'hands on' manual only. Once you get it working though it should be great for finding things.

Hi, welcome to SGL 

Can you describe the problems you are having?

Amazing detail 👍

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We now live in a world where so much of it is fake.

I prefer the real thing. A good old fashioned sensualist. You can spent hours watching Jupiter's surface and its moons rotate, or studying the changing light on lunar craters, or looking at stars whose light can take from tens to millions of years to reach you.

One prism I won't recommend is the Antares 2" 45° erecting prism. I bought this to use in the 60mm for birdwatching. CA is so severe it's unusable. I've since managed to get hold of a used Celestron 1.25" 45° erecting prism and that's just fine.

I have retinopathy in both eyes and maculopathy in my right. All due to being diabetic.

I observe with my left eye and there is a permanent string of floaters across the middle. Strangely if I move my eye upwards a little in the eyepiece the floaters appear to shift slightly downwards and I get a sharp view.

Steve has said in another thread there have been changes at OO and to 'watch this space'. 

UK astronomy needs someone to produce high end kit and OO could be it.

Tonight I had the opportunity to try out some of them on a razor sharp Saturn. For years it's been down in the mush and my previous best view was when it was overhead. Back then It was with an OMC-140.

Anyhow, not much to report. I used the LVW 3.5mm, Toe 3.3mm and Svbony at 3mm (3.5). They were all very good and I suspect you would be pleased with any of them.

On the moon it was the same as before - the LVW in front with the TOE a tad behind and the Svbony just behind that. Say 100%, 98% and 95% in terms of image quality. I didn't use the 4mm eyepieces tonight.

And we are done. A layer of high cloud has come across and brought things to and end.

Not before I got some of the best views of Saturn ever. For years it's been down in the mush, tonight, it was razor sharp. 

Just having ten minutes. It's turned cold and my fingers are frozen.

There's a nice peak on the limb near Grimaldi. Lots of surface detail on it with the 100mm and 3.5mm LVW (x211). Very crisp view.

Having a doubles session in the top of Hercules. Slowly working my way up to Draco. Seeing is excellent - Σ2161 looked amazing in the 100mm at x185.
Despite the moon, transparency isn't bad either. None of the high 'muck' that has been spoiling things here lately.

Just taking a coffee break. Then back out for more doubles. I'm not moving the scope up to the top of the garden so I'll wait until Saturn and the Moon come round the house.

Excellent images 👍

Lovely images 👍

53 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

My 9 months old go to dobsonian has developed a clicking sound while tracking.

I had that on a Skywatcher 250 Flextube goto. The mount went back to FLO, but, it still did it on return. They replaced the mount second time, and that did the same but in a different axis. At that point I'd had enough and the whole lot went back. I more or less had the scope six months and wasn't able to use it. It just wouldn't track without the clicking or the accompanying twitching.

I'm quite happy now with my SL Dob on an EQ platform. As someone once said, the more complicated the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain 

I think for the extra 0.06" resolution and 0.2 magnitude, the 203mm loses out to this one on size and weight v those small differences 
Oh, and price too...

A bit more orange...