A nice small William Optics
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A nice small William Optics
I paid the extra $150 to get the zyglo report for my scope, my thinking was it would guarantee that I get a good one and I was right, this blue beauty has a strehl of 0.977! The new Stellarvue offerings that i was considering (SVX-130t) are now made to a strehl of 0.98-.99 but cost $1300 more?? i am sure they are great but probably not $1300 more great, lol.
It's actually supposed to be mostly clear tonight, hope so!
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I spoke with Williams a number of years ago when I was looking to get a better scope than my Megrez 110, which sadly really didn't cut it for image quality once I tried to go above around 100x (a great low-power, wide-field scope though). They suggested their FLT 102 which had just come out at the time (and to their credit they offered to sell it to me at a terrific price), but when I said I was looking for a guaranteed 50x per inch on a good night, and was considering a Tak TSA 102, all they would say was "The FLT 102 optics are very sharp, but we can't match the Tak". It looks like they can now! (Especially if you get their zyglo report to keep them honest!)
I like the idea of the bahintov mask in the dust cap too: very cool.
Looking forward to your first light report. Whoops: just crossed with your comment above. More details please!
All the best,
Dean
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Eyepieces: way too many (is that possible?), but I do like my TV 32mm plossl, 13mm Nagler T6, 27mm Panoptic and 3-6mm Nagler zoom, plus Fujiyama 18mm and 25mm orthos and Tak 7.5mm LE
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Enjoy it and all the best,
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My only real issue is the supplied rotolock wasn't up to the task in holding my Aluma/FW8G/
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Will be very interesting on your result with the new tube!
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Refractors: ES AR152 f/6.5 Achromat on Twilight II, Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.8 on Celestron Heavy Duty Alt Az mount, KOWA 90mm spotting scope
Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster 15x70, Bushnell 10x50
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