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Old 19-09-2005, 10:17 PM
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Essential Acessory

Hi,

If I were to buy a 10" F5 dob with say 2 standard eyepieces 10mm and 20mm with a crayford focuser. Can you recommend the next must have accessory?
(excl, planisphere, skymaps, etc).

I was thinking of either a telrad viewfinder or a barlow.
Would I be better off appreciating the standard focuser for a couple of months or just go for the telrad?

As with the barlow, I hear the 2 x Orion Shorty is a good choice. Is that a good quaility item. I prefer to buy things once and knowing that I got something 1/2 decent as opposed to something cheap and nasty.
(dso etc are my real interests, if that helps weigh up the equation).

As for a collimating tool, I guess thats not so much a must have, but a mandatory item. If so, is there one and one only that does the trick?

I won't go into eyepieces just yet, cause I know thats another story.

Thanks heaps.
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