Hi this is Graham from Jenham's Astro last week i made a short video using
this telescope the starquest 102 mc and i had a look at mars and
photographed the red planet just as it came to opposition
this week i'm going to do the same thing again
using its big brother the skymax 127. so basically we're going to compare the
images we get of mars using a 5-inch maksutov
with a 4-inch scope and otherwise everything's going to be the same
we're going to use an equatorial mount two times barlow
an atmospheric dispersion corrector and an asi 120 color camera
so let's see how the two scopes compare
so have we got better results imaging mars with a 127
rather than the 102 well yes and should we have done
yes it's no real surprise that aperture wins
but another comparison that's useful is to see that this scope here in the uk
costs 250 pounds and that's just for the
optical tube assembly this one by comparison cost just over
200 pounds and that's including an equatorial and antazimith
mount, so we're not comparing the same thing this scope wins it's no
surprise and this one does does pretty well
really i think considering it's built to a budget so i hope this
has been useful gives you some food for thought
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