Final Decision Large Refractor

[rwilkey]

On 29/06/2017 at 17:10, Sirius Starwatcher said:

Am I right in thinking if you upgrade the focuser on the 120 you lose the shoe for the focuser. If so, anyone know how you get round the problem.

The Moonlite focuser has two shoes:

 

[Davey-T]

Bit late to this discussion but being a few, ahem, years older than you and having the 152mm I can verify that it is a bit of a struggle hoisting it onto the mount, it is good for solar imaging and has very little CA on the Moon but I would agree with the 120 advocates.

Dave

[John]

My ED120 Pro has an older 2 speed Moonlite focuser on it with one finder mounting point. It's a cracking scope optically, I'd not realised just how good until I had the Takahashi and TMB / LZOS refractors to compare it with. Syna made an excellent job of theses ED doublet objectives (the ED120 Pro and the Equinox 120 share the same objective).

 

[25585]

Those Moonlite focusers sure are eye candy, John & rwilkey!

I am tempted by the Equinox's dark tube. How heavy is the 120?

[Davey-T]

The 120 ED Pro tube weight is quoted as 5.13kg

Dave