Vixen 114mm ED f/5.3 nice scope!

Got my Vixen 114mm ED yesterday! It's bigger and more heavy than i thought it
would be, it came with a Skyview delux-2 EQ- mount from Orion.
The Vixen is a little big for the Orion mount, i would suggest a GM-8 or a
Vixen DX mount. It has a correcter that can be removed from the focuser, all
my observing was done with it removed.

I have only have a set of 1.25" Meade 4000 eyeps for now, the focuser is very
nice and smooth, just as good as my Taks FS-102 focuser! It has the very sharp
8x50 Vixen finder, and Vixen tube rings. This a f5.3 so it makes a nice wide
field scope, i bet with a 22mm Nagler the Vixen would be a killer sky sweeper!

I did notice some coma at very edges of the field, with a 32mmMeade, but thats
really to low a power for this scope. Mars was sharp and showed much detail,
at a power of 185x i could just see a faint hint of color. Took the scope out
this morning, seeing was not the best did some double star test, the scope
shows perfect pinpoint star images!
More to come, cant wait to get some Naglers for this scope...

Chas P.