Cff 300 vs Mewlon 300 or 250

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Rafa avatar
I’ve heard some awfully good things about the CFF and it’s small central obstruction with its capabilities of incredible planetary imaging as well as visual. I can have it here in seven months.
The Mewlon, well, it’s a Mewlon. The problem is it’ll be almost 2 years before I can get my hands on one…
I have all the refractors I could ever need; two TOAs, 150s
Looking for a reflector commensurate with those two.
it will be mainly be for planetary and some visual. But I would also like to have the opportunity of some narrow FOV, DSO.
I don’t know that I CFF would be capable of that.?
andrea tasselli avatar
Nothing I have seen suggests it is any better than a similar sized SCT or Newt, with the Newt possibly having the edge in terms of image quality. Obviously, it would be possible to use it for narrow-ish DSO imagery, provided the imager has the right-sized pixels which is pretty hard nowadays.
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