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Best lunar/planetary scope - EUR 2000 or less

Ags

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Paz

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2 hours ago, Ags said:

Out of curiosity,  is the glass path corrector required in an SCT?

You can focus an sct using binoviewers without a goc but in a perfect world using a barlow or gpc to enable the primary mirror to stay in its optimal position is ideal. If you have the primary mirror far out of its optimal position in order to focus it compromises its effectiveness.

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John
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I used to have an Intes (badged Orion) 152mm F/6 maksutov-newtonian (rather than cassegrain). Very, very "refractor-like" images 🙂

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I have been trying unsuccesfully for two years to fill an eyepiece case... don't make me do it in duplicate!

Louis D
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I actually like watching the moon drift through ultrawide to hyperwide angle eyepieces at high power when using an undriven alt-az mount.  It's kind of like watching it rise and set in a way.  Of cour

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