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Now that the CORONADO SolarMax II 60 BF10 model has a good price I'm thinking about acquiring one, I've also seen that Daystar has released the SS60-DS model, at a lower price, has someone been able to use them for visual observation?
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Pau
SolarMax 60 II vs, Daystar SS60-DS
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Re: SolarMax 60 II vs, Daystar SS60-DS
Hi Pau: I had the 60 BF 10 as one of my first solar scopes and I enjoyed it a lot. Very portable, I found it to be well built and providing good views.
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Re: SolarMax 60 II vs, Daystar SS60-DS
Pau,
The Daystar offering seems to be their Quark Chromo mounted in a 60mm f 15 refractor.
The Daystar offering seems to be their Quark Chromo mounted in a 60mm f 15 refractor.
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I'd go with Coronado!
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Re: SolarMax 60 II vs, Daystar SS60-DS
I'd agree with Valery!
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I agree with Valery and Mark
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Re: SolarMax 60 II vs, Daystar SS60-DS
I would not touch the Daystar. The "double stack performance" is marketing garbage. It's not a double stack at all and is going to have parasitic continuum show up. For imaging purposes, it's a fairly long scope too, due to the internal telecentric. Also, how do you double stack it in the future if you want to?
There's no reviews from people you'd trust as a 3rd party objective reviewer either, yet they're selling left and right.
Ultimately it's a short achromat with a Quark and an internal telecentric that you cannot take apart without likely breaking stuff to harvest the Quark (I think everyone is looking at it more as a cheaper Quark than anything). If you look at their wording, they say "effective focal length" so there's a telecentric in there. 930mm effective focal length, so it's quite long, in terms of imaging. And 60mm is not going to net you high resolution for imaging. And again, you can't truly double stack it. Even if it's 0.5A or 0.6A effectively, that's not double stack, that's just bandwidth. A double stack at 0.7A will kill a 0.5A single stack in terms of the true benefits of double stacking (parasitic continuum removal, narrow skirt profile, etc). No free lunch here. It's $700 for a reason.
SolarMax is what I would do for only a bit more. Way better future upgrade path.
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Very best,
There's no reviews from people you'd trust as a 3rd party objective reviewer either, yet they're selling left and right.
Ultimately it's a short achromat with a Quark and an internal telecentric that you cannot take apart without likely breaking stuff to harvest the Quark (I think everyone is looking at it more as a cheaper Quark than anything). If you look at their wording, they say "effective focal length" so there's a telecentric in there. 930mm effective focal length, so it's quite long, in terms of imaging. And 60mm is not going to net you high resolution for imaging. And again, you can't truly double stack it. Even if it's 0.5A or 0.6A effectively, that's not double stack, that's just bandwidth. A double stack at 0.7A will kill a 0.5A single stack in terms of the true benefits of double stacking (parasitic continuum removal, narrow skirt profile, etc). No free lunch here. It's $700 for a reason.
SolarMax is what I would do for only a bit more. Way better future upgrade path.
Lunt with pressure tuner, even better.
Very best,
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