Celestron 12046 Computerized Advanced VX 9.25" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

it's always a good day when i get to talk about one of my favorite telescopes and it's the celestron c9 and a quarter this is an internet favorite telescope it's sort of a cult telescope and i first saw one of these about it 20 years or so ago and i think my first reaction was nine and a quarter that's sort of an odd aperture i mean celestron had an eight and they had an 11 and mead had an eight and a ten so nine and a quarter didn't really seem to correspond to anything but these things quickly replicate a reputation for being really really good and this is my probably my favorite schmidt cassegrain of all time so just for size comparison yeah i know it's kind of hard to see me here we have several schmidt cassegrains we have a six inch we have an eight inch the nine and a quarter is at the end here and here's a ten inch now as you can see these telescopes get big and they also get qui