Re: Portable telescope

why not a small dob, something like the Stargazer Steve small dob's.


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"Thomas Womack" <twomack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Is there a type of telescope such that a reasonably-sized example can
> be kept on a folded tripod, carried down a couple of flights of
> stairs, unfolded, and be almost immediately usable?
>
> What I have at the moment is a Celestron 4.5"; it's on an unusably
> shaky mount, but is still too large a unit to be kept assembled, so I
> find that I rarely overcome the activation-energy to take the bits
> downstairs, assemble with bolts, move the tube in the rings until it
> balances, align the finder ...
>
> [the issue may just be that the tripod has a tray in the middle for
> keeping the legs apart, which is attached by several inconvenient
> bolts; are there scopes with tripod designs that actually fold up into
> a unit that can be lent against the side of a closet and carried
> around over a shoulder?]
>
> I'm somewhat tempted by a shortish-tube 100mm spotting scope, something
> like
>
> http://www.opticsplanet.net/konus-konuspot-20-60x100-spotting-scope.html
>
> on a moderately chunky photographer's tripod; but it's cheap enough that
> I fear it'll have some absolutely critical flaw for astronomy. The
> eyepiece is removable, and the whole unit weighs about six pounds.
>
> The other sort of direction would be a C5, but those seem to have much
> more serious tripods, and be a whole lot heavier.
>
> Tom


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