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Originally Posted by Rayw
I have more or less decided to buy either a 10" or 12" Dob, I live in Perth and the only place I have found where I can actually go in a shop and buy one is BTOW in Malaga, so first question is there any other places that I have missed ? , I plan to use the telescope mainly at home and travel to a dark site maybe once a month/6 weeks, so portability is not an issue if I decide to go for the 12", on the BTOW web site they only advertise the Truss type for the 12" which I don't need, I am wondering if the openness (is that a word ha ha !!) of the Truss design will be more affected by light pollution , prices given at BTOW are $849 for the 10" and $1100 for the 12" am I going to see much difference between the 10/12" , my main interest is DSO's, lastly ...for now  which Collomation tool would you recommend 
Ray. |
Hi Ray,
Keith at BTOW will sort you out, and you can see them in action at one of their viewing nights. Or there is also a place in Midland (Midland Camera House) where I got my scope from. They have several set up and the main guy there seems to know the stuff he's selling, he delivered mine (14" GOTO skywatcher) for free and offered to answer any questions. I'm pretty sure the same guy runs the website universalcameras.com.au with the prices of the scopes listed. This was the cheapest (local) price I could find at the time.
I bought my old 10" dob from Andrews (online store) and would do so again, no problems there.
Good luck, let us know how you get on.