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Upgrade from C14: overwhelmed with options!

Started by elea, 04/29/2008 06:39AM
Posted 04/29/2008 06:39AM Opening Post
Hi all,
I am looking at upgrading from my C14 for CCD imaging and I find the market place very crowded with new products. I feel overwhelmed by the choices between the RCOS, the Planewave CDK, the Starizona Hyperion or the Teton Telescope new RC astrographs...
They all claim that they have the best design etc. and I am lost!
Any thoughts/suggestions?
Thanks!
Francois
Posted 04/29/2008 02:03PM | Edited 04/29/2008 02:04PM #1
I would go with something that's been on the market for a few years and where there are people who have a track record of taking pictures that you think are awesome. For example, there's a new astro-graf reviewed in S&T which gets the usual high praise but if you read carefully they haven't figured out their secondary support yet, and it seems kinda silly to be marketing a system without having jumped that basic hurdle.

A more economical option is to outfit the c14 with hyperstar and do that. But if you have the funds and are ready for a jump, there's no pretending that there are not higher quality options out there.

I would also suggest that for a U.S. buyer there is at this point a huge penalty for buying European and for a European there is a big discount for buying U.S., even with TVA.

regards
greg n

"Scope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no scope." --Freewheelin' Franklin