Review of the Celestron 8" Evolution Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope - The Goldilocks Scope does it all

If you know, you know. This is the venerable Celestron C8. A marvelous telescope, and a 50+ year icon in the telescope world. Only the Questar has been around longer than the C8 as we know it today! Mounted on a NexStar Evolution computerized mount, this telescope is equally at home on lunetary and planetary targets as it is on deep sky objects and very distant galaxies/nebulae. I run my C8 in 3 different focal lengths: 2032mm at f/10 for planetary/lunar, 1280mm at f/6.3 for decidedly larger targets like M42/M45/M31, and -- in an astrograph HyperStar configuration at 390mm at f/1.9... for some of the most convenient electronically assisted astronomy you can do with an Altitude-Azimuth mount. There's so much to say, but suffice it to say -- if you have about $2000 to spend and want one telescope that is jack of all trades, competent at many, a C8 is a very heavyweight competitor to often recommended, larger, all-manual Dobsonian scopes.