OMC 140

"Robert Geake" wrote:

I seem to recall posting this here before but i will ask again just to be
sure

Has anyone had a go of one of these fine english made bits of kit? After
some opinions as to weather they are worth the £700+ price tag(exspensive
optics version)?

I've got one. It's a lovely bit of kit, very solid mechanically with
no noticeable mirror flop from the moving-mirror focusser. I use mine
mainly for planetary observing from my light-polluted urban garden and
it works a treat for that. The long focal length means you can get
away with longer eyepieces for a given magnification than with most
scopes, which may be a factor if you wear glasses.

Disadvantages are the cooldown time (common to all Maks thanks to the
thick corrector) and the narrow FOV. The limited aperture and FOV mean
it's not great for DSOs, so I wouldn't suggest it as an only scope
unless your interests don't go far beyond lunar and planetary
observing.


Tim
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