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Originally Posted by nimrod77
Thanks for the input guys! I have been looking on the for sale forums but I can't find anything much on there at the moment within my budget. The GSO setup looks pretty tempting.
Yusufcam, would an 8" dob be to hard to move around?
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with the forums you need a bit of patience, but 8" dobs come up pretty regularly.. (mine might end up there soon)
as a rough guide i would say 8" is about as big as you would want a teenager to handle, 10" for a single adult and then they become a bit unweildly.
many people who have backyards put dobs on carts and wheel them around.
often depends where you will end up doing your observing and if a single person will set it up.
i use my refractors a lot more than the dob because of having to negotiate the stairs and hallways even though the views are much better in the dob.
if you have a backyard and your son is able to move it around then the dob would be the way to go.
good luck