Re: Newbie Dob again...
From: Les Blalock (lesNOSPAM_at_grandecom.net)
Date: 02/27/05
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:28:20 -0600
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:03:35 -0800, Mike Simmons >I'm going to go with
my own long-term bias and get the most quality
>aperture for the money since the money that's available isn't going to buy
>a nice SCT or anything like that. And I'm going with my own bias for
>star-hopping for newbies. Please don't bother start a flame war over which
>is best for newbies since it's not relevant to this thread -- unless you
>want to pay for the scope, of course!<g>. Mediocre optics are out but with
>the available money they're not going to be custom. A Dob will be the way
>we go here. I've helped others a while back with evaluating, for example,
>Orion vs. Discovery but I haven't kept up on them. And there are so many
>possibilities from the two Chinas that I keep reading about on s.a.a. So
Mike,
FWIW - I've always been impressed with the Orion 6 and 8 inch Dobs but
I recently viewed with a Hardin Optical 8 inch and found the optics
pretty much equal to the Orions' but the Hardin Dob movement was much,
much smoother than any of the Orions I've used. The owner said the
only modification he made was to put some plastic washers (cut from
milk jugs) around the pivot bolt in the base.
Les Blalock
http://www.txastro.org
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