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ZS 80 II ED OTA

Started by kgav8r, 10/16/2007 02:52PM
Posted 10/16/2007 02:52PM Opening Post
Could anyone give me their personal experiences with using the zenithstar 80II ED for imaging? I'll be using DSLR for right now and was just curious. It seems pretty good, but I kinda wanted a little more aperature. The problem I seem to be having with my setup right now is coma at the long focal lengths of my canon zoom lens. 200mm is fine stoped down to f/7.1, but 300mm at f/8 still introduces a lot of coma (see my image of M8 and M20). I don't really want to stop it down any more.
Maybe a link to a site with astrophotos taken through this OTA?

Thanks,

-KDG