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Originally Posted by Starkler
Welcome back 
What do you get by buying a cheap eq mounted scope over spending the same amount on a dobsonian?
- less intuitive and more difficult pointing. Having to rotate the tube and contort yourself into odd positions to look into the eyepiece.
- a much heavier and more cumbersome setup due to counterweights etc
- a less stable platform causing wobbles and difficult focusing. Using such a scope at high magnifications will be frustrating.
- less money being devoted to aperture and optics. You really want the most aperture you can afford.
- Ok you do get tracking but forget astrophotography with such mounts, its really not hard to track with a dob after a small amount of practice
There seems to be a perception that a dobsonian is a poor mans scope that is lacking. This is unfortunate. Why throw any of the limited resources into a crappy cheap mount and make life difficult for yourself?
There is certainly one scope you should NOT buy. The fr1400x150 acheives its 1400mm focal length by means of a built in plastic barlow and has a spherical mirror ie it is optical trash definately to be avoided. |
WB crash - and Starklers reply re dobs should be THE standard reply to this question - excellent summation!
I used friends cheap homemade eq mount for years with large reflector - and it was horrible - i find dobs to be incredibly easy to use
Kearn