Puts my 6" f/5 to shame.

Yah but we're talking 90" focal length compared with 30", 300% more light collection and a huge jump in resolution. It's hard to compete with big APO refractors for planets.

BUT.... lets look at the Orion Nebula with each scope and see which one can show the wide view : ) Lets pan the Milky Way and see which one takes in enormous starfields. Your 6" f/5 has its merits.

I have a hard time getting along with fast scopes, I am also using an f/9 refractor these days. I miss the wide fields though.

The telescope in use is rather interesting. Designed by the late Thomas Back (RIP) from Ohio, in a project coordinated by a guy in Germany, with a lens built by a Russian Company (Lyktarino Optics "LZOS") which make a special kind of glass made by nobody else in the world. The glass attempts to emulate the properties of natural fluorite crystal. The company LZOS used to make cold war military spy satellite lenses, and then switched to amateur astronomy optics once that dried up.

The lenses are famous for their (quality overall), and especially for their very natural reproduction of color.

The lens used here is worth probably $25,000 to $30,000 dollars, and weighs probably 40 pounds.

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