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Has anyone compared 180mak to C11?


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Has anyone seen a 180mak ' out perform' a C11? 

By this, I mean specifically with respect to seeing double stars and planetary detail. 

I know aperture should win, but I'm interested in real world accounts where side by side comparison produced surprisingly better results for the mak over the C11

Thanks 

Mark 

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I've used several 180 Maksutov Cassegrains and  observed at length with a C14, as well as several other SCT's over the years. Though both designs are very good, I would lean towards the 180 Mak for double stars, simply because I've not yet seen a Schmidt Cassegrain give a true star image. In the SCT stars always seem to appear as tiny soft ping pong balls rather than a true Airy disc with diffraction rings. So by extension, I'd go for the Mak as a prefered planetary scope, simply because if it shows a sharp Airy disc it will show sharp planetary detail. Soft stars = soft planetary detail, and although the C11 has significantly greater resolution, unless it is truly thermally stable the benefit may be lost in the softer view. 

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I second that, i have put my 150 Mak head to head with my 8" LX200, the Mak is smaller but, produced sharper planetary views, and yes, from what i saw, my Mak produced star images as close to a frac as i've seen.

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