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Which would you choose?

Poll ended at Mon May 10, 2010 12:38 pm

Borg 60ED
0
No votes
Borg 77EDII
2
22%
Pentax 75-SDHF
2
22%
WO Megrez 80FD
0
No votes
Tak FSQ-85ED
2
22%
Tak Sky-90
3
33%
 
Total votes: 9
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The Pentax because it's no longer being produced? :-)

All of the rest can be purchased relatively easily..
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Those SDHF refractors are legendary... while W-O is.. not so legendary :-) unless it's a Fluoro-Star.
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I would choose the WO - the rest are Japanese, this one is different! I feel that WO really put Asia (ex Japan) firmly on the map of Telescope design and manufacturing. For that, I salute them!
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That said... I think W-O mechanicals are better than GSO mechanicals. If the 10:1 GSO crayford on my homebrew Newtonian is a representative sample (compared to my Zenithstar).

But yes GSO and Synta are responsible for today's low-cost astronomical equipment craze. Let's also not forget Synta bought/bailed out Celestron. Meade is on life support.


What about Astro-Tech? who makes their scopes? Kunming?
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