Photos in your linked thread were instructive. The extras you have there are not typically found any longer - very nice to see. The counter-weights, illuminated eyepiece, Kellners, filters, off-axis guider, and the cast aluminum guide scope piggy-back mount. (can you see my jealousy?) I...
A big achromatic refractor like that on an AVX likely doesn't have much utility for astrophotography, except for hydrogen-alpha Solar observing (with a proper energy rejection filter) or narrowband planetary imaging (a quick Google Image Search doesn't show any deep-sky photos taken with a C6R...
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I really like this thread by the way, I've read it completely over the past couple of days. Nice to see that lots of images are still there after all those years. And I recognized some photos bykkokkolis; I've known him for over a decade (from another forum ...