I have to admit, I've been sorely tempted by some of those Orion Maks... A six or seven-inch Mak would satisfy my long-focus desire, with a tiny central obstruction and very low total weight for the mount to bear. Also it would be very good for planetary observing as well as imaging. On 5/1/10, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
Are you still using the 127mm refractor on it?
Yes, but infrequently. It's remains my primary lunar scope. Right now I'm concentrating on using a 2008 Meade ETX 125 as my primary after work scope (whenever this solar minimum wet-weather pattern ends).
I greatly appreciate the offer to borrow your Atlas, but just a couple of hours of the two of us using it at SPOC one night . . .
Bill Cowles also shows up using an Atlas - although I seem to recall he has moved on to something else as his scope-de-jure. Others here may know.
- Kurt
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