Orion are selling the tube assemblies for their SkyWatcher 120mm Refractors for £169. Is this a good deal?
Does anyone have experiance of these?
When they say "tube assemblies" does that mean the optics and so on are all put together, or is is a bag of bits?
There's probably quite a bit of collimation and so on needed to get a scope performaing at its best, and if the optics aren't good then....
I had a chat with them and there brand new assembled (tube assembly, no finder etc) and ready to go.
So you'll need to fit a finder and get a mount and some eyepieces as well. Those could add up to a fair bit more.
Yep, I was going to go out and buy a meade LXD55 for £1,079, apparently the mount is not up to too much so I was going to get a smaller scope, get a decent mount (approx £600+) for now then get a descent scope in the future to put on the mount.
Or Get an 8" Meade LXD, to start with, get a good mount for the optics later and use the LXD Mount for a CCD wide field camera.
Or stick with my ETX70 and save about £2,000.
Basically there's to many toys available to buy.
Advice form anyone would help, I like the ETX70 but its limited. And I want MORE POWER!
For pure resolving power, a plain newtonian often offers the best aperture-per-buck....