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jenericzac
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Reged: 09/15/08
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Hi, I've been looking for a good beginner scope and like the Vixen VMC95L on the mini porta mount. Does anyone have any experience with this scope? I am unable to find any reviews on it. Any other suggestions would also be appreciated.
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core
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Reged: 02/23/08
Posts: 116
Loc: Mostly in Norman, OK
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You would probably get a wider response and suggestions if you post in the Beginners Forum; that said I have only looks thru the VMC95L once or twice, and there really wasn't anything wrong with it or the views other than asking yourself if it's value for the money. A couple random thots:
* The supplied red-dot finder is very nice and easy to use.
* 1045mm focal length at f/11 might be a little long for beginner scope on a alt-az mount; with a 40mm/40° eyepiece it should give you 27x with ~1.5° true field of view (3x the width of the full moon) - quite manageable imo to star-hop around.
* the mini Porta, if it's anything like the Porta, is a very nice mount for the $$
* $400 for the setup (in the US) would get you a 8" Dobsonian and couple more accessories - the downside the that your telescope weight goes from 10lb to 40lb.
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royalflash
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Reged: 03/08/08
Posts: 79
Loc: Munich
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I have a mini-porta here on loan from my astro-club- I havenīt had chance to use it much but it looks much better than a normal photographic type mount which are unstable with a telescope. You canīt use it much for terrestrial stuff as the telescope cannot be aimed at lower than horizontal but that is no problem if you are just doing astro. The mount is very light and quite fragile (its not super high quality) and plasticy. It is not that old and has already been broken and repaired a couple of times so be careful with it if you get one. Maybe the normal Porta might a bit more robust but you pay for it of course with the added weight. It looks Ok though for small scopes- I have a Skywatcher 80 ED on it at the moment.
It has manual tracking controls so you can follow objects quite easily.
The mount looks basically OK for grab and go.
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