On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 10:54:00 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 10:07:24 AM UTC-4, Razzmatazz wrote:

Poor seeing favors small apertures on double stars and planets.

I have never found that to be the case.

It's very true. Once, I had my 8" SCT set-up looking at Jupiter and it's moons, good views only lasted for an hour or so, because the seeing got so bad, Jupiterturned to an orange blob. Switched to my 4" refractor and I still had good viewing of the planets through the night.
My first refractor was an old, scratched up Edscorp 3"F15 OTA, bought it on the flea market for $20, LOL! which showed wonderful views of the planets, even on days when my 8" SCT was useless. Use to ask my wife, do you want to see the planets tonight?
She's respond was - Only if you set up that old telescope! She didn't like my 8" SCT!
The old 3" refractor made me a refractor nut!