I got a second hand Celestron 14" Schmidt Cassegrain telescope ($2,800) recently, I set it up during weekend, compare to my F4 newtonian reflector, it has much better contrast, the sky background is dark.
Use TV Panoptic 41mm, Saturn is beautiful, what surprise me is the dark background, I can easily pick out 9 mag stars, even better, NGC 5605 can be recognized with a little effort.
Conclusion: I have to praise Celestron engineers for their flag ship product - C14, it is the dream scope for light polluted sky.
Later on I did a little engineering to put sky commander digital setting circle and use parallel port to communicate with it. Now I can cruise through sky from my laptop, cool!
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