Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 02/14/1999 02:40:26 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.110.196) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38900
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 03/04/1999 02:26:49 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.197.174) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38901
Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 06/26/1999 05:52:31 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.139.89) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38902
>I just purchased this no longer available F/9 version ED scope with wood legs and the super polaris mount as "New Old Stock" from one of the major mail-order companies. It never fails, if you buy a scope, it will rain that first night. Anyway a few nights later, the sharpenss and fine detail on Jupiter, Mars and even Venus just blew away any view I have seen over the past 20 years with my 8" F/6 Reflector. Of course the image brightness and the "Image Scale" is not as good as the 8". The star test is perfect, and ABSOLUTELY NO FALSE COLOR!!!! I cant wait to test this scope again other "larger scopes" side by side at the next star party. What made me purchase a refractor?, I went to a star party 2 years ago with about 300 scopes, after looking a Jupiter in all types and sizes, it amazingly was a 60MM scope that had the best picture. Maybe not the most detail, but the most pleasing. I cant imagine why anywone would buy a SCT, since Refractors blow them away and they are not suited to deep sky observing. SVANH@TIR.COM I've owned over 50 scopes and have never had a smaller scope beat a larger one on any object. I just did a side by side with 3 scopes. A MacCass, an SCT and a Tak 102. The SCT showed MUCH more detail on Saturn than the others.
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 01/18/2001 07:19:55 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.72.163) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38903
Overall Rating: 8 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 05/02/2001 04:22:51 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.130.233) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38904
Overall Rating: 9 Optics:9 Ease of Use:9 Value:10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 01/13/2002 05:29:26 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.200.200) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=55490
Overall Rating: 5 Optics:7 Mount:8 Ease of Use:5 Value:4 Weight: 10 (Trustworthy Vote) Date: 07/07/2002 07:38:33 am PST By: Staruser Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=110556
>The pinpoint stars are nice int this scope. But, the items you will see are very limited by the small size of lens. Do yourself a big favor and buy at least a 10in. or bigger scope with high quality optics. Remember the old rule of astronomy, the bigger the scope the more you will see! I have been to many star parties over my 20 years in astronomy and the big scopes always have the BIG lines behine them!! Save yourself some money and get a large scope now. I totally disagree with this remark. in my suburban garden, with local light pollution, i have owned everything from 80mm short tube to 12 inch dob, and my most pleasing views have been in this celestron 102ED. You get crisp, sharp,contrasty views which you dont see in an SCT, or a big dob. size does dont always win, this gives beautiful images, and at public viewings I get the most compliments at the views in this scope. I'm keeping this and the 12 inch dob is sold! don't be put off by comments like this one, if you can find one of these theyre a steal and so portable too!
Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 03/22/2005 03:47:07 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.156.32) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=427966
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