First go at Andromeda with the new scope

[fast apex]

Will try to get a wider blur x'd crop soon.

[left salmon]

Beautiful

What scope ?

[fast apex]

Altair starwave 70ed.

[left salmon]

Nice

Does it need a reducer/field flattener ?

[fast apex]

yeah I used a 0.8x flattener

[left salmon]

Wich brand ? Sorry for asking so many questions im trying to make up my mind on the sw evostar 72ed

[fast apex]

https://www.altairastro.com/altair-starwave-v3-08x-reducer-t2-thread-279-p.asp

usually brands make specific flatteners for their scopes,

[smoky sequoia]

Evo star 72ed has its own flattener

[fast apex]

ive heard that scoope doesn't have the best optics. You get get something better second hand like I did,

[left salmon]

Ik ik, even tho I've seen good images taken zith an evostar 72ed and an ovl field flattener ?

[fast apex]

try get a doublet or triplet with fpl glass

[left salmon]

Tried that, on the local version of Ebay and on facebook marketplace, no one ever answered me... and ive messages more than 20 persons

[fast apex]

ah right. Not many options then.]

[left salmon]

Yzah pisses me off, why would you put something on sale and not even dare answer the potential buyers

Anyway

Thanks guys for all this int

[ivory schooner]

If ur in the Uk or canada id highly recommend looking on UkAstroBuySell or CanadaAstroBuySell, youll get more and better deals there

[left salmon]

In france

We dont have altair scopes... not sold around here

[fast apex]

Someone on ebay in the uk may consider shipment to france

https://www.te-les-koop.nl/ - dutch, https://www.astrosell.it/mercato.php?Id=1 - italy, https://www.webastro.net/petites_annonces/ - france (idk if it works), https://www.astrotreff.de/forum/index.php?board/112-marktplatz/ - germany, much more too. @left salmon