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I'm new too and was looking at both those dobs... I'll be going the meade for the extra $200 simply because it'll definately fit in my Mitsubishi Colt...
The bintel might fit, but it would be tight and not worth the risk...
So my favouring of the meade is purely due to the truss design... Both have the same focusers... The spotter scopes are different... I imagine both scopes are made by GSO so their mirrors would likely be identical...
I like both those scopes because they look to be drop in. I don't like the ones with screw handles through the base. I like the idea of dropping the base on the ground and then dropping the OTA into the base... Viola!
Collimation is fast and easy... Even if the scope has been played with by a child and is way way out of alignment it is easy. So if its just a quick check after setup its super quick... But what I've been told on this forum is, the solid OTA will need collimation too! I check collimation in my beginner dob because I can and because I wanna get used to doing it when I get a bigger dob...
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