OMC 250

Hello,
How comes i find so little about the orion optics UK omc 250 , no
reviews etc.at all!
If somebody can help me out and tell me something about the quality of
this scope please be my guest!
Is this scope also usefull on deepsky objects and planets, i would only
use it for visuel observe?
Thanks a lot for answer
Olli

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Hello,
How comes i find so little about the orion optics UK omc 250 , no
reviews etc.at all!
If somebody can help me out and tell me something about the quality of
this scope please be my guest!
Is this scope also usefull on deepsky objects and planets, i would only
use it for visuel observe?
Thanks a lot for answer
Olli
Think 'small company'. These scopes have only been around for about a
year, and this is a small UK company, so the number sold is countable
without needing large numbers of digits. You can select the optical
'quality' yourself (paying extra for 1/6 p/v optics). Mechanically, they
are nice, and the optics really _are_ 'what they say on the tin'. Barry
makes sure his optics are well inside the quoted figures. The current £:$
ratio, makes these less appealing in the US, than other makes, cutting the
market further. There have been a couple of minor private reviews, which
have been excellent (look in the archives for the orion Yahoo group). The
smaller OMC200, is a traditional Maksutov, with full aperture correctors,
but seperate secondary, and is better thought of as 'planetary' scope,
with very slow focal ratio, and a tiny fully illuminated field. The 250,
and larger instead use a sub aperture corrector assembly as part of the
secondary assembly. Much slower focal ratio, and larger illuminated field.
The design, is 'targetted' towards imaging, rather than visual use, but
this doesn't stop them from being superb visual scopes.
What mount would you be considering/using?. Though the Sphinx carries it,
if I was putting together a really 'nice' scope system based on this, I'd
consider getting something like a Losmandy GM-8, as the 'minimum' good
mount, or a heavier unit than this if portability was less of a worry.
I have the OMC200 (mine was about the first with the 1/6 p/v optics, and
the Hilux coatings, with better than 97% Strehl), and a friend has
recently got the 250, intending to use it with an ST-10/AO7 for imaging,
but so far, timing, and weather, have stopped me from having more than a
short look through it. However first impression, was 'great'...

Best Wishes