Meade LX200 10"
Star test is excellent, 1/8+ p.t.v.
Confirmed by several double stars in the 0.4"-0.6" range. Clean split, with
almost textbook diffraction pattern. With superb seeing, it can go over 600x
in planetary obs. with no image breakdown. Very impressive.
Image brightness is also excellent. Under rare nights of 7 visual magnitude
limit, can see galaxies at 16.2-16.5 range, and stars just over 17.
Tracking is good, but with some tweaks can go to excellent also. With PEC,
just about 4" of periodic error.
Stability is superb in alt-az, good to fair in equatorial. But with some
SuperWedge mods., can be very good.

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>Star test is excellent, 1/8+ p.t.v.
>Confirmed by several double stars in the 0.4"-0.6" range. Clean split, with
>almost textbook diffraction pattern. With superb seeing, it can go over 600x
>in planetary obs. with no image breakdown. Very impressive.
>Image brightness is also excellent. Under rare nights of 7 visual magnitude
>limit, can see galaxies at 16.2-16.5 range, and stars just over 17.
>Tracking is good, but with some tweaks can go to excellent also. With PEC, 
>just about 4" of periodic error.
>Stability is superb in alt-az, good to fair in equatorial. But with some 
>SuperWedge mods., can be very good.

A ten inch telescope cannot see stars of magnitude 17. Period. 

This simple fact, should, for reasonable people, invalidate your claims.

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