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Old 15-01-2012, 09:02 PM
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Sorry I have been out today so took a while to reply. In my opinion these scopes are not easy to use. They are on an EQ mount. This means that once you have an object in the field of view they can track it. The problem is getting it into the field of view as the movement of the scope is not intuitive. It will have the same problem as the 130 scope you mentioned. It is not the scope itself but the mounting that makes it hard for beginners. An alt az mounted scope such as a dobsonion simply moves up and down and side to side make navigating much easier.
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