No one has mentioned the mount yet , so here I go .
I had one of these horrible EQ mounts once under a 114mm f9 no brand scope ( It was blue
) and while the optics were quite good I had to , as said change the finder (it was a 4x20? ) , fixed that easy but the mount ,,,,,,, I have never seen such poor engineering in my life .
As it was it was totally un-usable , poor every thing
m, terrible .
It took lots of work to get even usable but luckily I had a well equipped work shop and after weeks
of work ( washers , gears , worms , machining
, castings , basic fittings ,,etc, ) basically a total rebuild because after one problem was fixed the next part inline showed its deficiencies ,,, on and on .
After it was fixed I gave it to a budding young astronomer in our club and he got years of joy out of it as said it had good optics being a true longish fl scope without that horrible built in barlow it performed very well .
I still say that 6 inch dob its a much better scope in all ways .
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Oh yes Alan and family
to IIS . A GREAT PLACE .
Brian.