bordagea
06-08-2008, 06:23 AM
Hi;
I am a new member to your wonderful astronomy community.
I joined about a week ago. I was surprised to see a "Happy Birthday" e-mail message from your support team in my e-mail message box. OOPS! I let the cat out of the bag! Oh well....
Anyway, it was a nice thought!
I am purchasing one of the Round Table Platforms (http://www.roundtableplatforms.com/ for a Skywatcher 12 inch F/5 collapsible dobsonian telescope(http://www.skywatchertelescope.net/swtinc/index2.php
Hope those links work. If not, let me know.
I am very happy with the Skywatcher dob. I have only had it for about a month now, but I did manage to observe with it a few times so far, and I am happy to report that the optics give good images (a star test reveals a fair smoothly figured mirror with no visible errors under most viewing conditions). I already owned a binoviewer that I purchased for my Celestron 8 inch SCT (early 90's version), and I am anxious to try it with my 12 inch dob (the collapsible tube design will allow this). A bonus!
Unfortunately the weather has not cooperated for the past few weeks or so (lots of rain and fog), but hopefully it will get better soon.
Take care everyone.
HEADS UP!
Adrien Bordage
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
I am a new member to your wonderful astronomy community.
I joined about a week ago. I was surprised to see a "Happy Birthday" e-mail message from your support team in my e-mail message box. OOPS! I let the cat out of the bag! Oh well....
Anyway, it was a nice thought!
I am purchasing one of the Round Table Platforms (http://www.roundtableplatforms.com/ for a Skywatcher 12 inch F/5 collapsible dobsonian telescope(http://www.skywatchertelescope.net/swtinc/index2.php
Hope those links work. If not, let me know.
I am very happy with the Skywatcher dob. I have only had it for about a month now, but I did manage to observe with it a few times so far, and I am happy to report that the optics give good images (a star test reveals a fair smoothly figured mirror with no visible errors under most viewing conditions). I already owned a binoviewer that I purchased for my Celestron 8 inch SCT (early 90's version), and I am anxious to try it with my 12 inch dob (the collapsible tube design will allow this). A bonus!
Unfortunately the weather has not cooperated for the past few weeks or so (lots of rain and fog), but hopefully it will get better soon.
Take care everyone.
HEADS UP!
Adrien Bordage
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada