Am considering selling a late model (just pre-bankruptcy) C8

and getting an 8" or 10" dob. Objectives are better optics and

greater ease of finding things in the sky with the Alt/Az mount.

The latter point is most important. It's hard to scan the sky when

The DEC axis is either very tight or very loose. One cannot move

The tube fluidly. (The focal reducer helps, but the mount really

sucks.) Tracking is not as important to me as I once thought it

would be.



Sooooo. Is this a rational idea?



Thanks and Regards,

-Larry Curcio