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Advice needed!
Hi All,
I stumbled onto this forum 2 nights ago, fantastic forum that kept my up till 2am reading past post!
Anyway I was dead set on getting a 10" dob from YorkOptical here in Melbourne, and take advantage of the 20% off, but being the 37 degree day that it was, I didn't end up going down there, and now the prices seem to have gone up on the website!!
The 10" is now $949 and the 8" is $599, I'm tempted to be patience and wait it out, do some more research, go back to playing with Strellarium and my binoculars, cause thing appear to have gone out of the budget I had set. What to do!
Anyway I had a few questions now.
1. Is the 10" dob easy to move around or is the 8" dob more the go if I was going to be moving it around abit?
2. Somewhere down the track I intend to change the mount and hook my Canon 450d onto it. All that I've worked out so far is that some sort of camera attachment ring is needed. So then what happens? Camera attaches onto lens of choice, which attaches onto attachment ring which attaches onto telescope?
3. I live almost towards the edge of the western suburbs of Melbourne and the sky is not exactly dark at night. I've seen the planets from telescopes in my area, but am I going to see deep space objects in these conditions with the telescope I intend to buy?
4. That is going to sound silly, but what is the moon filter for? Do you need one when viewing the moon? I've taken some lovely pictures of the moon from my 450d with the zoom lens
Your thoughts?
Surreal
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