What telescope do you use for planetary observing.

[Stu]

15 hours ago, John said:

These mostly:

And occasionally, this one:

Is that all of them John? 😉

[John]

3 hours ago, Stu said:

Is that all of them John? 😉

Nearly all !

I have 60mm and 90mm refractors in the loft currently which don't get out much

I guess the point for me is that practically any scope can give good results on the planets if the seeing conditions co-operate

 

[Darkmatter]

7" F11 or 8" F10 Newtonians if I can be so inclined to set them up but usually 5" F8.9 and 4" F15 refractors

Edited July 26, 2021 by Darkmatter

[Skyline]

Very pleasing views from my Celestron C100ED coupled with an old Celestron Ultima Barlow

[Skyline]

Grumpy the Telescope Magician ! 🤣

[RobertI]

18 hours ago, Voyager 3 said:

What mount do you use for your 102ED-R @RobertI ? 

I mount it on a Skytee 2 which is rock solid, sometimes side-by-side with the C8. 👍

[patsmnp61]

Greeting. My scopes used the most are a 150mm f/6 Intes Maksutov-Newtonian and a 80mm TMB f/7.5 apochromatic with a LOMO objective. Both are used on a Losmandy GM811G mount. I use orthoscopic eyepieces from University Optics volcano tops and Zeiss Abbe Ortho II

[John]

1 hour ago, patsmnp61 said:

Greeting. My scopes used the most are a 150mm f/6 Intes Maksutov-Newtonian and a 80mm TMB f/7.5 apochromatic with a LOMO objective. Both are used on a Losmandy GM811G mount. I use orthoscopic eyepieces from University Optics volcano tops and Zeiss Abbe Ortho II

Hi and welcome to the forum

I used to have an Intes 150mm F/6 mak-newtonian. It was a superb planetary scope

Mine was branded "Orion". I think it was the first time that they had sold a Russian made product under their branding !

 

[Piero]

I use these two for both DSO and planets. A couple of weeks ago, the Newtonian was pointed at Saturn and Jupiter and the delivered views left me speechless as they were literally outstanding. 🙂