 Fast Focus Short Tube Newtonian Telescopes
I would just like to inform everyone that if you want a scope for planetary viewing it's best to avoid the Fast Focus Short Tube Newtonians.But for deep space object viewing the short tubes do a fine job, I was at a star party recently and people kept wanting to view thru my 6 inch Short tube Chinese Newt that I bought off E-Bay, and there were a lot of much larger and more expensive scopes around me, so I got curious and went and viewed thru some of the larger scopes and to my surprise my 6 inch Newt was doing as good as some of the larger and much more expensive scopes on some of the deep space objects and I was only using a 25mm low power EP.
let me know if i am misguided.
cheers
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