Re: Get Me Started (again...)



Lee Bouknight wrote:
> Hello All
>
> As a kid, I was always looking up. Folks bought me a "cheap" scope from
> Sears and I used it for many years. Had a great time with it, but once I
> went in the U.S.A.F., lost interest. I'm 43 now and my 5.5 year old
> daughter is showing an interest - I'm thinking it's time to get started
> again. I've researched and researched...and now it's time to ask the folks
> who know (and who don't stand to make any money off me when I ask them!!).
> A few questions if I may....
>
>
> Sorry so long, but I want to do this right and would appreciate any help all
> you "amateur-experts" out there can give this "total-amateur"!
>
> Thanks in Advance


$1300 is a respectable sum of money to put on a first real telescope
but it wont get you a good goto system. I would sooner recommend the
Orion Intelliscope series. It does not have goto but it does have a
digital readout of where your telescope is pointed so you can move it
there by hand.

Ian Anderson
www.customopticalsystems.com

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