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Clive Gibbons
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Re: Orion 150mm MAK
      07/26/05 09:42 AM

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Why no reviews anywhere about this scope?
Seems strange....Nobody bought any ?




These are made by Synta and also sold as Sky-Watcher 150mm Maksutovs. A friend of mine owns one and is quite happy with it.
One caveat: The actual aperture of the 150mm is approx. 142mm. This is because the primary mirror is slightly smaller than necessary to deliver a full 150mm clear aperture (entrance pupil) at the corrector lens. The 127mm Mak suffers from the same issue. It's "entrance pupil" aperture is 121mm, as measured by Sky and Telescope magazine in their March 2002 review.

Cheers,


Clive.

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* Orion 150mm MAK Covey32 07/26/05 09:24 AM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Kenny   07/26/05 05:05 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Starman1   07/26/05 04:34 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Clive Gibbons   07/26/05 09:42 AM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK southmike   07/26/05 11:30 AM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Greg W   07/29/05 12:38 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK tolmac   07/31/05 12:07 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Greg W   07/31/05 09:41 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Starman1   07/31/05 01:54 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK tolmac   07/31/05 05:09 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Starman1   07/31/05 07:38 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Ken603a   07/29/05 12:51 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Larry F   07/29/05 06:27 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK mooreorless   07/29/05 03:47 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Starman1   07/29/05 07:09 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK DIO   07/29/05 07:26 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK DIO   07/29/05 07:32 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK mooreorless   07/30/05 06:22 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Starman1   07/30/05 07:13 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Dylan Gladstone   08/08/08 09:51 AM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK bobmarleyou812   08/08/08 06:50 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK sang33ta   08/08/08 07:06 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Mert   08/10/08 04:58 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK jrbarnett   08/10/08 05:29 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Mert   08/11/08 07:14 AM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK cuir   08/11/08 06:42 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK mooreorless   07/30/05 08:11 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK stevie   07/31/05 04:52 AM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK DIO   07/30/05 07:11 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK stevie   07/30/05 09:30 AM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK mooreorless   07/29/05 07:20 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Ken603a   07/29/05 04:03 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK Greg W   07/29/05 02:56 PM
. * Re: Orion 150mm MAK ForgottenMObject   07/26/05 09:28 AM

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