On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:48:10 -0400, "Dimitri I. Rakitine"
wrote:

I was pretty much set on getting Orion XT8, but, out of principle, I avoid
buying stuff made in China as much as I can,
so I searched for alternatives and came up with discovery-telescopes
company. One I'm interested in is 8" PDHQ:

http://www.discovery-telescopes.com/PDHQ.html

Also, which viewfinder do you guys recommend - 8x50 or Telrad ?

TIA


Very similar scopes to the classic Synta made Orion dobs are the Guan
Sheng made scopes from Taiwan marketed under the Celestron name.

http://www.celestron.com/prod_pgs/tel/dob_index.htm

Same OTA, different base,

http://www.binoculars.com/products/H...ope_23864.html