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12" F8 Ritchey Chretien, Peter Butler

12" F8 Ritchey Chretien

12" F8 Ritchey Chretien, Peter Butler

12" F8 Ritchey Chretien

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Start of a new build. I'm normally a widefield imager but decided I wanted to start capturing galaxies and smaller nebulae in more detail. After some pondering I decided on a 12" F8 Ritchey Chretien. I am going to be replacing the terrible standard focuser with a TS Optics 3" short focuser along with a 0.8x reducer/flattener (brings the scope down to F6.4). While the Skywatcher CQ350 is more than capable of handling the weight of the RC I will likely replace it long term with an EQ8 mounted on a pier. For the camera I have a spare ASI2600MC Pro and filter wheel so will be using that initially and then change to an ASI2600MM at some point.

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12" F8 Ritchey Chretien, Peter Butler