Re: Advice on use of straight finder?

On Jun 27, 12:35 pm, William Hamblen <wrhamb...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You can put longer legs on the base
pretty easily.

True enough. Doing so without compromising the Dob's stability is a
whole 'nother matter. Keeping the Dob stable, vibration-free, *and*
equally portable is quite a trick!

On the whole, I find lowering the observer almost always superior to
raising the telescope.

But even in the best of circumstances, I find straight-through
finderscopes a pain in the neck -- literally. If I've got things
really comfortable for looking through the eyepiece, then it's always
at least a little uncomfortable to look through the finderscope, and
vice versa.

This is, no doubt, less of a problem on SCTs than on Newts, which have
a large range of eyepiece height depending how high above the horizon
they're pointed.

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