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Old 30-08-2017, 04:01 PM
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Ro84 (Roberto)
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@luka, I accept 10" and 20" (with and without pizza), as well as a mere 4" + good and fair astrofriendship.

When I saw the southern sky for the first time 10 years ago, I enjoyed it a lot with just a "home-made" 5" newtonian on a very unstable forked tripod mount, and still I was amazed to see the plenty of Carina Arc, the clusters in Southern Cross and Centaur, and the Magellanic Clouds. It was more than enough for me.

Here in Sardinia I'm using your telescope's small brother, a 8" Sky-Watcher dobsonian, and still I'm fully enjoying the amazing northern galaxies, the clusters in Cassiopeia and the nebulae in Cygnus and Perseus. Some of my friends have a 12" and even a 16" telescope, but my 8" with good accessories and a very dark sky just 45 minutes from my home is more than enough for me, again.

If some of you will come to Sardinia for holidays (you never know), I would be happy to bring you under a good sky and show the northern objects, and southern objects down to the Scorpion tail and Omega Centauri with a reversed perspective. You will have to settle for a small 8" dobsonian, since you are used to larger telescopes.
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