From: "Shawn Grant"
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: Coming in 2004


Full Computerized GoTo Dobsonians, not just PushTo.

Then John Dobson will commit suicide because he can't bare to watch how
morons have ruined his simple mount.

Yes....but I'm not sure what the big deal is here. This will just make the
stuff more accessible and more people interested. Unlike golf where it
costs me more, the more people who get into it, the more people into
Astronomy the better. I certainly wish everyone on my street was into it,
then there would be no lights from the outside of houses.


80mm 90mm 100mm 114mm and 120mm ED scopes out of China

We need to boycott all products from China. They are stealing jobs from
hard
working Americans. All manufacturing should take place in America.

Totally agree here, we are selling out to a world economy. China is a
dangerous place to be dealing with. They are starting to jump
(technologically) ahead of us in some areas, with a cheap labor pool to
boot. We give way too much money to China for a lot of *junk*.


1/40th wave Newtonian mirror scopes.

The seeing is so crappy where I live you can't see the difference between
1/6th and 1/10th wave. That wave crap is a bunch of BS.

Totally agree. Don't know what wave my scopes are. You know what, I don't
care. I'd like to make the inside of my scopes darker, but other than that
I don't care. They can see better than I can :-)


Dedicated Solar Prominence Telescope under $600.

Now that would be good.


Agreed too.

Mike.