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An excellent all round SCT.  Easy to set up.  Simply point the OTA North and switch on.  Enter your Lat & Long, date and time. Then do a one, two or three star align from a menu of about 60 named stars. Takes about two minutes.  Once aligned the GOTO is accurate to about 20 arcminutes over a slew of 90 degrees or so. So easy to get DSOs in the FOV of a 20mm EP (focal length of SCT = 2000mm / f10). Seems quite happy pushing x300 magnification - even in poor conditions.

I have used this 'scope for 3 years, over hundreds of hours and never had a problem with it. The build quality is reasonable and optically it is surprisingly good. The contrast is not as good as I would like - but it is an SCT, not an APO refractor. However, for a mixture of planetary and Deep Sky observing it is excellent.

I have noticed some field curvature when imaging, but this can be minimised with a field flattener/focal reducer.

An all round good performer.

Tom

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