Celestreon dob's gone ???

"Indianaradio" wrote in message
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Does Celestron make 8 or 10" Dob's anymore? I can't seem to find them
anywhere.

Thanks for the help.

No, they discontinued them a few years ago.
Pity though. They had some really nice features,
but a few fatal design flaws. I had an 8" which only
gave satisfactory images one night.

The diagonal was too small, retained too much heat,
and was hard/impossible to position properly.

Cheers,
Larry G.

Does Celestron make 8 or 10" Dob's anymore? I can't seem to find them
anywhere.

Hi:

Long gone.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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"LarryG" wrote in message ...
"Indianaradio" wrote in message
...
Does Celestron make 8 or 10" Dob's anymore? I can't seem to find them
anywhere.

Thanks for the help.

No, they discontinued them a few years ago.
Pity though. They had some really nice features,
but a few fatal design flaws. I had an 8" which only
gave satisfactory images one night.

The diagonal was too small, retained too much heat,
and was hard/impossible to position properly.

I think that review in S&T a few years back killed a lot of dob lines.
Celestron = gone. Meade = No small dobs. Bushnell = Pretty much gone.

http://teleskopservice.de/gsseiten/testbericht8zdob.htm

Max "Gone.gone.gone.gone.gone.dobbydobby.gone"

"LarryG" wrote in message ...

The diagonal was too small, retained too much heat,
and was hard/impossible to position properly.

Interesting--S&T praised the 8" model for a tube design that minimized
heat distortion. The Meade (also discontinued AFAIK) was the one with
the major heat problem.

All-in-all, though, S&T didn't give more than a lukewarm thumbs-up.
Translation: better than the Bushnell. They found spherical
aberration--not the first time for a Celestron Dob--and panned the
sorry excuse for an "imitation finderscope."

The impression i got was that neither Meade nor Celestron took the Dob
market seriously. It was as if they believed that for a cheap, often
home-made design, quality was unimportant. (Gee whiz, people, if we
wanted bad quality in a cheap package, the shopping mall is just up
the road.)


Clear skies!

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