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Fastar System on Celestrons

Started by martianmt, 02/01/2003 02:59AM
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andy marsh
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Why doesn't this option make Meade LX200 series obsolete?

Who wouldn't want two telescopes for the price of one!

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I don't know. In SCT's it's more of a name game and advertising hype than anything else. Not a big meade fan personally (if you didn't notice before smile ), but I will say Meade's answer to fastar is a native f/6.3 OTA with an f/3.3 reducer yielding ~f/2 or so. common answer from meade fans is that they don't want to hang weight off the corrector lens. Fastar just makes better images (although in an 8" you're limited to just an st-237 or possibly some starlight express cameras).
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Maybe some folks aren't interested in doing CCD imaging? Then it becomes rather unimportant.
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