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Old 07-11-2006, 11:48 AM
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hickny!

I've been seeing lots of "seben" labelled stuff on ebay. Accessories all look like the cheapest of Chinese gear and scopes don't look much better either: poorly outfitted optical tubes on flimsy weak mounts and toothpick leg tripods. ie, typical first live-and-learn scope one buys before buying a real usable scope. You would have very hard time selling it at any price on this site. You could probably give them away to people with a bit of know-how who would chuck the tripod and mount and make something out of the OTA.

Without knowing what exactly you are after, the general recommendation is to go for an 8 or 10-inch Dobsonian. Don't be fooled by the basic appearance of the Dob mount. It is very capable and a lot more useful than any "scientific" looking EQ mount you get with considerably more expensive scopes.

You have lots of options in competitively priced (by worldwide standards!) good quality telescopes: Andrews, Bintel, Myastroshop just to name a few. If you are just starting out and know little about telescopes I'd say go with Bintel.
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