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great_bear

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Indeed - they're best known for their short-tube Newtonians with built-in Barlow. These are sold on ebay all the time and aren't the great deal that they're presented as being.

If you're after a Mak-Cass scope, Sky-Watcher offer a good range of them at good quality and reasonable prices. Not the best choice as a daylight spotting scope, but great for highly-portable astronomy use with good performance.

I have both a 105mm one and a 180mm one.

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Yes, stay well away from Seben scopes. Think of them as the Trabant of the telescope world.

John

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Indeed - they're best known for their short-tube Newtonians with built-in Barlow. These are sold on ebay all the time and aren't the great deal that they're presented as being.

If you're after a Mak-Cass scope, Sky-Watcher offer a good range of them at good quality and reasonable prices. Not the best choice as a daylight spotting scope, but great for highly-portable astronomy use with good performance.

I have both a 105mm one and a 180mm one.

which of the skywatcher models are ok

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Of the Maksutov-Cassegrain ones?

Well - I've no idea what the 90mm is like, but the 180mm is an amazing telescope. Both the 150mm and 127mm ones are also well-respected Maks, and I've just spent a thoroughly enjoyable evening looking at the moon through the 102mm one.

Hope that helps.

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brantuk

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If you take the objective lens out of a Seben refractor and drill a half inch hole throught the focuser tube for a "T" bar - they're great for boring a hole in the ground to cement in a circular washing line pole lol :D

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TheThing

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Some erroneous information here!

Seben actually make very decent Refractors, EPs and filters - espc the light pollution one.

Their reflectors are universally awful and there doesn't seem to be much info about the Maks.

So, don't write Seben off completely, you might miss a bargin.

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John

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A Seben 90mm mak was offered free to a beginner by an SGL member a year or so back I recall. I think he said that it was not as good as the Celestron or Skywatcher equivilents but decent enough on the moon and bright planets (Jupiter and Saturn). It was a nice gesture and went to a 10 year old lad I think.

I've not used one personally though.

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