Starwave ED80

[Teslar]

I've bought one second user. So far I'm very happy with it for the money paid. I've noticed a few people have given this scope bad reviews because it's not good in the blue channel. That hasn't shown as a problem yet but I'm using it mainly visual. I do plan to use it with my DSLR when the chance arrives and just wonder what filter or other mod would anyone recommend to improve this scope

TIA

Tom

[Stephen]

It would be hard to justify the price of a semi apo filter to correct the blue channels because when you add the price of that to the price of the scope you may as well of bought a well corrected doublet in the first place.

Personally I'd not bother getting a filter, and fix the blue issues in post processing.

[Teslar]

Thanks Stephen that's a good plan

[laser_jock99]

Personally I'd not bother getting a filter, and fix the blue issues in post processing.

As above- remove any offending blue halo's with a mouse click in post processing. I also have a second hand OTA and find it quite usefull.

Here's a recent picture through mine- some blue halos but not disasterously bad. An 80mm triplet would have cost me another £500.

[Stephen]

As above- remove any offending blue halo's with a mouse click in post processing. I also have a second hand OTA and find it quite usefull.

Here's a recent picture through mine- some blue halos but not disasterously bad. An 80mm triplet would have cost me another £500.

and a properly corrected ED80 would of cost you only a little more

[laser_jock99]

and a properly corrected ED80 would of cost you only a little more

Dunno about that- I got the scope plus the optional reducer/corrector pretty cheap. The equivalent SW ED80 + reducer (new) would have been another £424!

[laser_jock99]

Another recent Star Wave ED 80 image, M22 Globular Cluster Sagitarius 120s unguided.

[Teslar]

Nowt wrong with those that a few mouse click can't fix a bit guiding. Personally I thing I got a real bargain with mine. I don't think there are many people who get a great image first time with no post processing so I'm happy that the Starwave can produce as good an image with so little processing