Re: [APML] Scope advice (was: Mewlon 250)

["Syzygy" <syzygy@vnet.net>]

Frank,

Should we assume you are primarily interested in astrophotography?

- Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Barrett <frankb@celestialwonders.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:32 AM
Subject: [APML] Scope advice (was: Mewlon 250)


| > The Mewlon is a Dall-Kirkham - which has even more coma than the
sct.
| > It's  a great visual scope (for narrow fields at least) and easy
to
| > manufacture,  but i don't think it's meant for photography. Apart
from
| > coma, it's  probably made with the smallst possible secondary, so
it
| > will have  illumination issues as well.
| >
| > Radu
| >
|
| I appreciate your insight.  I've received some off list help as well
and
| with a little digging on my own I'm starting to rethink this
direction.  I
| think the Mewlon would still outperform my C8, but $6K is alot of
money so
| I want to be sure.
|
| OK list, I need your help selecting an new scope.  Here's my
situation.
| My daughter is in high school and we're trying to save for college,
so I
| can't spend more that about $6K-$7K on a new scope (even a low end
RC is
| out of reach right now).  Whatever I get will have to last me until
she
| graduates (7 years).  I'd like to spend the money on good optics
that will
| fit on the G11, say 30 to 40 lbs at most.  I prefer a non-SCT design
as
| that is where most of my discomfort lies (mirror flop, spherical
| abberation, extreme vignetting, etc).
|
| So what do y'all recommend? If you know of a scope that fits my
needs I
| sure would appreciate your input.
|
| Thanks, Frank
| http://celestialwonders.com
|
|
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