[JD]

After a long break from astronomy, I'm looking to get a 10" Dob. I have seen a few scopes I'm interested in but need a bit of advice.

Does anyone here have experience of the Sky Watcher 10" Dob, with its collapsible design? What I want to know is how well this scope holds collimation. Never having owned a Dob, it seems to me that whatever I get will have to be collimated fairly regularly anyway. It really comes down to whether or not the convenience of a collapsible tube is worth paying extra for or whether it just introduces more complexity. The alternative is the GSO/Bintel scope which is about $95 cheaper at the moment. Sure, it's not as compact but it probably doesn't need such regular collimation either. It also leaves me with some spare cash to invest in a Telrad and a laser collimator.

Whaddya think?