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Hi Wade,
I'll have a crack at this topic. Our school bought the GSO 12 Dob and my teaching mate took it home first on a fRIDAY NIGHT AS I had to go out I think. I phoned him and when I got home his excitement caused me to drive 20 minutes to have a look. In one hour we found about 15 galaxies and could not stop laughing at NGC 253 as the view was out of control like I'd never seen before. Stunning. There are a lot of good point made. I'm 46 average fitness and I can lift it and put it on the base but it is a bit heavy. I have a Nissan Navara 4x4 and the thing doesn't fit into the ute section so I take the Subaru forester with the back seat down. I do collimate ever time I use it only because I'm ust to doing it and it takes no time. It does have a circle on the mirror and the planets with a powermate are great. We've even had rings made for it and chuck it on an EQ6 Pro bot that is absolutely pushing the limits. I do love this scope but also I have looked through a 10"DOB and they are fantastic as well.
Mark
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