What's your scope?

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by Louwai

My only comment is that the poll is not really accurate.
What about those who own multiple scopes???
I can only vote for 1, & when I return to the thread I can't vote again.

Unless I haven't figured out how to work the poll correctly. In which case all above comments are void.

You can only vote once, Bryan.

Which really makes a mess of stuff, coz this thread is over 2 years old and many people have changed scopes since first posting. I have.

Many many people start out with a Dob, so they naturally tick 'Dob'. Then move onto something else, which makes the dob numbers look very impressive coz they can't change their vote

And only being able to tick one makes it a bit null and void, as I need to tick 3 of them.

[Benny L (Ben)]

Between me and my dad we have...

10" Meade LX200 Classic
14" Meade LX200R
4" TSA102 Tak (I think thats the right model lol)

[Meadehead]

What a Laugh

Now imagine how boring life would be if everyone had the same scope.

I wouldn't know which is the best, but I love my Meade LX90GPS 8"

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

You can only vote once, Bryan.

Which really makes a mess of stuff, coz this thread is over 2 years old and many people have changed scopes since first posting. I have.

Time for a new thread and a closing of this one?

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

yeah I was juts going to vote and was told I have already..which had forgotten...

[Ian Robinson]

10" fast newt was on a CG5 , have a New Atlux (bought in June) and it will be going onto that shortly.

[netwolf]

A better way to do a poll like this is to add it as a profile feature for each member to fill out and edit when they change scopes. This information can then be displayed anonymously as a dynamic poll, of what people use.

[Dog Star (Phil)]

Didn't think that this would be an interesting thread. How wrong I was!
Mind you, the poll was about what you own or primarily use, not about which is best.
I own a Dob. It suits my needs and situation and I can't see that changing in the forseeable future.
I wouldn't insult anyones intelligence or pride by suggesting that their scope is no good.
But, I mean, if you haven't got a Dob....

[AlexN]

How does one chose their primary scope... I love my refractors as much as my SCT... I may use the refractors more, but the cassegrain gives me this fuzzy warm feeling inside when I use it... Sigh....

I voted SCT because, well... Its just awesome... Its big, its powerful, it catches heaps of light.. Whats not to love?

[Max Vondel (Peter)]

Problem with the survey :
I love my SCT, refractors and my family!!!
How do I choose ???

[Jooster]

Mine is a 12 inch Dob, 8 inch SCT and a 90mm Eq refractor

[pjphilli (Peter)]

I use a 150mm f13 Maksutov for narrow field imaging, an 80mm f6 apo refractor for wide field imaging and a 100mm Maksutov f6 for guiding. What I like about the Maksutovs is that they never go out of collimation unlike some other SCTs.

[Geoff. Lyons]

This is my first posting. I live halfway between Brisbane and Ipswich so as you can imagine the sky is worse than crap, so any observations involve a lot of lifting, loading in the car , driving, unloading (you get the drift) so I'm limited to an 8'' skywatcher with a load of eyepieces and a pair of 10-50 binoculars. Cheers Geoff.

[Wavytone]

Quick to set up and portable - 102ED f/7 and a 180mm f/15 Mak.
http://web.me.com/nicholas.loveday/Site/Misc.html

Of the two I use the refractor more, often leaving the Mak behind. Speaking of things that stay collimated, when assembled the scopes do stay parallel within about 10 arc minutes, and even the 50mm finder is usually pretty close to aligned when fitted.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by mick pinner

everybody wants a SCT. for a scope with supposedly poor optics they sure do sell a lot of them.

At one of the star parties I looked through a large number of scopes. Just about all of them were so badly collimated that good or bad optics wasn't the issue

[AlexN]

Not wanting to drift off topic, but I think claiming that SCT's have poor optics is pretty silly.. I've had just as good views from my SCT as through my APO, It just requires careful collimation and a lot of time to cool properly.. with poor collimation and a warm mirror, yes, the optics look bad... collimated and cooled, its my best scope.

[mick pinner]

agree 100% Alex, a well collimated SCT especially at F/6.3 is a wonderful scope.

[NCRAW]

I was thinking that one day i will need an Alt Az mount and tripod, just for the days i wanna do some quick scanning. I think it will go well with the 80ED and ill keep the HEQ5Pro for a bigger future scope.

[garyp]

This thread is no problem for me as I own only one scope and you guessed it, it's a Dob

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Damn, already voted,

Just added a new baby to the family, Dobzilla the Skywatcher Flex 12" Dob.

I am soooo proud.

Cheers

Chris