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Found this on Ebay, has anyone ever seen these dob's before?

1300mm by 160mm

http://tinyurl.com/l8v39


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Starlord wrote:
Found this on Ebay, has anyone ever seen these dob's before?

1300mm by 160mm

http://tinyurl.com/l8v39




Here's another website, to a vendor:

http://www.apogeeinc.com/product.asp...d=682&catid=73

At the price ($270) I wouldn't expect a lot. And the alt bearing looks
a bit small.

But I do wonder if anyone has tried one?

Phil

Starlord wrote:
Found this on Ebay, has anyone ever seen these dob's before?

1300mm by 160mm

http://tinyurl.com/l8v39




Hi Dennis:

I've seen one of these in person...and I was very impressed by the
build quality for the price. Optical quality? Don't know...I wasn't
able to use the scope, but everything seemed a cut above what you'd
expect in this price category.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
and _The Urban Astronomer's Guide_

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Thanks, I was just doing my normal checking of ebay and saw that one, it
looked good, but never having seen one I'd figured I'd ask here. When I see
scopes of anykind I like to know more about them as I might end up listing
them in the faq.


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Starlord wrote:
Found this on Ebay, has anyone ever seen these dob's before?

1300mm by 160mm

http://tinyurl.com/l8v39




Hi Dennis:

I've seen one of these in person...and I was very impressed by the
build quality for the price. Optical quality? Don't know...I wasn't
able to use the scope, but everything seemed a cut above what you'd
expect in this price category.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
and _The Urban Astronomer's Guide_

Like SCTs and MCTs?
Join the SCT User Mailing List.
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/sct-user

See my home page at
http://skywatch.brainiac.com/astroland/index.htm
for further info

For Uncle Rod's Astro Blog See:
http://journals.aol.com/rmollise/UncleRodsAstroBlog/

But they leave out one size that I figure is a must have, what's the mirror
size? It looks to be about a 6 or 8inch one, but they don't say.


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http://www.cafepress.com/starlords




"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
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Starlord wrote:
Found this on Ebay, has anyone ever seen these dob's before?

1300mm by 160mm

http://tinyurl.com/l8v39




Here's another website, to a vendor:

http://www.apogeeinc.com/product.asp...d=682&catid=73

At the price ($270) I wouldn't expect a lot. And the alt bearing looks a
bit small.

But I do wonder if anyone has tried one?

Phil

Starlord wrote:
But they leave out one size that I figure is a must have, what's the mirror
size? It looks to be about a 6 or 8inch one, but they don't say.



Six inches .. or 6.3" if you belive the 160mm of your intitial msg.

Phil

That's a strange size, and I wonder "WHO" is making them? I looked at that
site, those other scopes with the pole/tripod cobo looks odd too. Did you
read the promo for those?


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"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
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Starlord wrote:
But they leave out one size that I figure is a must have, what's the
mirror size? It looks to be about a 6 or 8inch one, but they don't say.



Six inches .. or 6.3" if you belive the 160mm of your intitial msg.

Phil

I'm looking at their 8" and smaller GEMs. I see they don't manufacture
a dual-axis drive for their mounts.

That dobbie looks nice. Anyone out there own one?

Richard in the west end of the Antelope Valley, California

wrote:
I'm looking at their 8" and smaller GEMs. I see they don't manufacture
a dual-axis drive for their mounts.

That dobbie looks nice. Anyone out there own one?

Richard in the west end of the Antelope Valley, California



Here is the most novel one:

http://www.galileosplace.com/whatsnew.html

About it they say:

"New to Galileo's Place is the Galileo Tri-Centric Telescope. The
Galileo Tri-Centric Telescope is the largest advance in altitude /
azimuth in over 300 years. It features the worlds first fully contained
telescope mount and tripod system. The tripod legs extend out of the
pier mount body and lock into place making extremely stable and highly
portable. The Tri-Centric is available in manual, electronic, and GOTO
configurations."

Largest advance in over 300 years .. now that is some claim!

Phil

I sent them email about the mirror size and yep, they say 6.3inch, kind of
an odd size, but I would figure must be at lest chinese mirror at that kind
of size.


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http://www.cafepress.com/starlords




"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
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wrote:
I'm looking at their 8" and smaller GEMs. I see they don't manufacture
a dual-axis drive for their mounts.

That dobbie looks nice. Anyone out there own one?

Richard in the west end of the Antelope Valley, California



Here is the most novel one:

http://www.galileosplace.com/whatsnew.html

About it they say:

"New to Galileo's Place is the Galileo Tri-Centric Telescope. The Galileo
Tri-Centric Telescope is the largest advance in altitude / azimuth in over
300 years. It features the worlds first fully contained telescope mount
and tripod system. The tripod legs extend out of the pier mount body and
lock into place making extremely stable and highly portable. The
Tri-Centric is available in manual, electronic, and GOTO configurations."

Largest advance in over 300 years .. now that is some claim!

Phil