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Old 08-03-2007, 10:28 AM
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Thanks Rob, that sounds like good advice.

Is there any particular brand of Dob that is better than the other. ie. Starhopper/Meade/Bintel/Skywatcher etc.
each has its strengths and weaknesses, but the one piece of advice i'll give you is if you plan on EQ mounting it later you need to get a solid tube dob like a skywatcher or GSO rather than a truss like the meades lightbridge.

I have a 8" GSO. used to be dob mounted, now its on a heq5. I have linked the controller to a laptop computer and i can controll the goto from there
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