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Old 17-12-2010, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by mbaddah View Post
1. I own a 10" skywatcher, used to own a gso/lightbridge and have used a 12" gso. The GSO dob comes by default better equipped than the Skywatcher. This includes a fan on the primary, right angle finderscope (Skywatcher has straight through), a 10:1 crayford focuser (Skywatcher is not crayford), bobs knobs on secondary/primary (skywatcher still uses alan screw type on secondary) and I think the GSO has a better altitude tension bolt.
Just to clarify, i don't about the solid tubes but the collapsible skywatcher dobs have a crayford style focuser.

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