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Old 14-04-2007, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Starkler View Post
At the hobbyist end there are two manufacturers, Synta and GSO.

GSO make the gso (of course) . The Bintel dobs are a gso dob with a bintel sticker on them, and the Meade lightbridge uses gso optical components.

Synta make Skywatcher, Celestron and Saxon dobs, and also Orion dobs for the US market.
Gee Starkler, that's really fascinating, it makes me feel better about not owning a Meade.

Well there you have it, I guess they all do pretty much get coughed out of the same factory!

But do GSO produce the same OPTICS for Meade, and not just other parts? And speaking of the LightBridge, I never understood the truss design. Don't you get a lot of unwanted light flooding in from the sides?
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