Help me choose

Jeffery Richards:
Okay, let me try and "help" with what I'm thinking/looking at. Deciding between a Baby Q, a Vixen VSD90, or Stellarvue SVX-102.  Again, goal is for a complimentary wide field imager to ride along side my iDK.

all three of your options look good to me

it really depends on what focal length you want

Jeffery Richards:
Okay, let me try and "help" with what I'm thinking/looking at. Deciding between a Baby Q, a Vixen VSD90, or Stellarvue SVX-102.  Again, goal is for a complimentary wide field imager to ride along side my iDK.

Does the Baby Q cover full frame?

Jeffery Richards:

Jeffery Richards:
Okay, let me try and "help" with what I'm thinking/looking at. Deciding between a Baby Q, a Vixen VSD90, or Stellarvue SVX-102.  Again, goal is for a complimentary wide field imager to ride along side my iDK.

all three of your options look good to me

it really depends on what focal length you want

I'm going to have to load all three into Astronomy.tools and compare. I have no direct knowledge of any of them other than "reputation".

try Telescopius; it's much better

Kevin Morefield:

Jeffery Richards:
Okay, let me try and "help" with what I'm thinking/looking at. Deciding between a Baby Q, a Vixen VSD90, or Stellarvue SVX-102.  Again, goal is for a complimentary wide field imager to ride along side my iDK.

Does the Baby Q cover full frame?

no.. it doesn't. And it's iffy with the reducer across aps-c on modern cameras with small pixels. 

Its a fantastic scope with a qhy8 or qhy10, or a sbig stl-11000 where pixel sizes are greater than 6 or 7 microns, but the fsq85 will usually show astigmatism with the small pixels of the imx571..

There are plenty of better options at lower prices. 

Takahashi have to do a new version of the FSQ if they wish to retain the title they've held for decades as the go to top of the line refractors. 

I would personally look at the vixen vsd 100 f/3.8 if you're looking for wide, or the pentax 100sdp/sdph

Alex Nicholas:

Kevin Morefield:

Jeffery Richards:
Okay, let me try and "help" with what I'm thinking/looking at. Deciding between a Baby Q, a Vixen VSD90, or Stellarvue SVX-102.  Again, goal is for a complimentary wide field imager to ride along side my iDK.

Does the Baby Q cover full frame?

no.. it doesn't. And it's iffy with the reducer across aps-c on modern cameras with small pixels. 

Its a fantastic scope with a qhy8 or qhy10, or a sbig stl-11000 where pixel sizes are greater than 6 or 7 microns, but the fsq85 will usually show astigmatism with the small pixels of the imx571..

There are plenty of better options at lower prices. 

Takahashi have to do a new version of the FSQ if they wish to retain the title they've held for decades as the go to top of the line refractors. 

I would personally look at the vixen vsd 100 f/3.8 if you're looking for wide, or the pentax 100sdp/sdph

That's interesting, everything I've read says the Q with the flattener (kind of ridiculous requirement for a Petzval) or the brand new designed for the Baby Q reducer will do full frame just fine.

Jeffery Richards:
As the topic implies, I am looking for help in choosing a complimentary refractor to my AGOptical 14.5" iDK (2464mm) to be used in a side-by-side tandem setup at a remote site. The goal is a high quality (prefer readily available) wide field scope. I was thinking something along the lines of a baby FSQ or Stellarvue 102T Raptor. I would likely be using a APS-C camera with it initially but might switch to full frame at some point.

Let the fun begin! Thanks!

**hi

here is one of my setup

takahashi  baby-Q   FSQ 85 EDX  ( 450mm)  flat 1.0x or RD-QB 0.73x New reducer for "Baby-Q ( 328mm)

camera  zwo 6200 full frame, chroma filter 50mm ( 3nm )  SQM 16.84

perfect corners  , just need some precision with the back focus( with  Fine-Adjustment Rings)  ,and the pattern light house ( big stars) live with that

and  M54 for all imaging train , if you need more info let me know

with asi air pro plus you can use full frame ,or APS-C FOV, selector mode 
now I'm moving for NINA

CS, Brian

Jeffery Richards:
Very nice setup Brian!

thank you so much , Jeffery

CS,Brian