It the Celestron 8 inch F5 OTA similar to the one you have? How are the
optics
in that scope

Hi:

Mine are at around 1/8 wave, give or take. Surprisingly good. If I hadn't been
doing so much Mars imaging, I'd have probably used it on the Red Planet
more--it delivered an amazingly good image. But at f/5 I had to resort to
stacking barlows to get the image scale I wanted, and the SCT was just easier
to use.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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