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"The worse telescope is the one you haven't looked through..."
It's like the old saying.. "The best chair to sit in, is the one you haven't sat in.."
Jokes aside, my first 4" reflector was a scope that pulled out with four struts from the main steel tube that locked into place. Same principle as the SW Flexidobs. While its collimation was always up the spout, once fixed the images were superlative.
But the worse el cheapos was the ones that came out in '86 prior to Halley's Comet. Cheap plastic lenses, finderscopes that had a stop inside.. one would have got better results looking through a pencil with its lead removed!
Who remembers the ads for Bosch and Lomb telescopes in S & T mags back in the 70's and 80's? "... the tube is so strong, the military fire rockets out of it..." !!! Crickey, I'd hate to see the firing pin...!! Even Meade used photos in their ads taken with pro scopes for their Newts. and early SCT's....
So, can anyone actually pin down a scope that DOES live up to its name in build and image quality?
Last edited by Star Hunter; 11-04-2014 at 02:59 PM.
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