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Hard To Go Wrong
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Daniel Johnson on January 26, 2003 15:29:29 UTC |
You'll find it hard to go wrong with either scope. I'm much more familiar with the Meade, since I own the 10-inch version, so familiarity gives me bias toward Meade. In Sky & Telescope there seem to be more photos published with Meade scopes than Celestron, but you'll see both. The Meade with the new UHTC optics does transmit more light than Celestron (despite Celestron's misleading ad to the contrary). The mount on the Meade is beefier--important if you want to do photography, but heavier to move. The Meade has a true-north sensor, not a magnetic-north sensor like Celestron's (more precisely, with Meade you can train the scope to know the difference between true and magnetic north), leading to more accurate GPS alignment in altazimuth mode. Plus you get the extra in aperture.
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