GSO Truss Dob

[deepblue]

Anyone heard if GSO are going to produce a Truss Do? Understand they make the mirrors for the Meade Lightbridge and wondered if they had thought of making their own Truss design?

[davidpretorius]

as far as I know, the 16" was not going to be truss... there are a few threads floating around re the Meade 16" and GSO//

welcome by the way

[Gargoyle_Steve]

Despite the fact GSO's website shows the exact same image for the 16" (http://www.gs-telescope.com/content.asp?id=85) as for the 12" solid tube (http://www.gs-telescope.com/content.asp?id=84)design, the story apparently is that the 16" GSO will be a truss tube (as per Andrew's Communications add in recent months) - supposedly with 3 single straight heavy trusses, not the multiple cross-braced trusses as per the Lightbridge version.

All I can say is I'm dying to get a look at it!