I also spent a couple of evenings using the scope visually to hunt down a selection of double stars and brighter deep-sky targets in the summer sky. This is admittedly unusual testing for an instrument mainly designed as an astrograph, but it was sent to me with adapters for conventional 1¼- and 2-inch eyepieces, so why not. While the FSQ-130ED did deliver exquisite views through an eyepiece, it was not an easy scope to use visually. Because of the focuser's limited travel, switching eyepieces, adding a star diagonal, or using a Barlow lens for increased magnification often required adding or subtracting adapters from the setup. And because most of the adapters thread together, this proved to be challenging and time-consuming in the dark. Despite p Although light pollution interferes with recording traditional RGB color images of faint deep-sky objects from the author's observatory, exposures made with narrowband filters are only mildly impacted. This 5¾-hour exposure of the Horsehead Nebula was made through a 7-nm hydrogen-alpha filter. The small halos around the two brilliant stars in Orion's Belt are almost certainly caused by the CCD camera and its filters rather than by the telescope optics. s k y a n d t e l e s c o p e .c o m * MARCH 2017 63http://www.skyandtelescope.com