So what does one do with an RFT gem like the Pentax? This scope was made for Sagittarius. It does a great job on the multitude of nebulae, open clusters, star clouds and globulars populating the steam of the teapot. This is a scope for lazy summer evenings, cruising the showcase DSOs one after the other. I think it will be a sublime star party/public outreach scope with its generous fields of view and robust, overbuilt construction.
Regards,
Jim
-------------------- "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."