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- From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
- Subject: Pirate Instruments 6" f8 Dobsonian experiences?
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:12:28 GMT
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- Has anyone owned or used one of these? $200 bucks for a kit
- might be a great deal, or it might be throwing away money
- better saved toward that 15" Juno :->.
- What is the net.verdict?
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- More generally, can anyone compare the experiences of an RFT
- versus a long-focus instrument? Rich fields sound like fun,
- but on the other hand, living in Dallas means that getting
- to a dark sky will be an occasional thing, and I'll likely
- spend the majority of my time looking at solar system objects
- from my back yard. So, for example,
- does a Coulter Odyssey work just fine for moon-and-planets when
- an off-axis aperture stop is used, as their literature claims?
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