[mic_m (Michael)]

Originally Posted by glenluceskies

Sorry Michael, but I have read the four posts you have made reference to the GSO secondaries, and quite frankly out of a large astronomical population who frequents CN, out of all the thousands of GSO-made dobsonian sold around the world under various brands, to me, this is not a large percentage to put me off buying one.

Just remember Michael, people will find faults (some legitimate and some not) in any scope, but you will only read about the bad ones, and never hear about the good reports.

I will only reiterate, economical Dobs are built to a price and a market. Are there any other similar scopes which are better quality "straight out of the box" you have looked at?

hoo roo

Stephen

Stephen, you are likely correct and given the GSO dobs seem to be very popular and therefore highly numerous among amateur astronomers I suppose that it is inevitable that the odd instance of secondary astigmatism will arise in a population of otherwise very good optics. I have rectified my original post on the matter so as not to confuse anyone with information that may be inaccurate.
Cheers.