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4lefts

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  1. Ah, I was going to ask about that - I had a poke around the bresser eBay page and it made me wonder with all the listings being in Germany. Thanks.
  2. Very true. I need to put together a some kind of shortlist. Cheers.
  3. @Second Time Around this looks like a good option too. I didn't realise Bresser had an ebay page. I'll have a poke around and try to figure out whether the dimensions of the OTA are too much. either way, £150 for a 5" newt and mount is a bit of a steal. I'd never seen the zwo seestar before - this is how the hobby has changed in the time I've had my finger off the pulse. I'm not sure it's for me (I do like the almost "vertigo"-like sensation of thinking about it being the actual photons hitting my eyeball across x-many hundreds of light-years or whatever - it's hard to describe), but it looks interesting!
  4. Thanks ever so much for all the speedy advice everyone. Thanks for all the pointers to small fracs. I had an st80 a long time ago - I might look around for another one or similar. I really want something widefield for the milky way that I wouldn't normally be able to see. it's a "shame" (that's not the right word) that there's that one glob I really want to see, but as @Tiny Clanger pointed out, there seems like there might be an astro society of sorts. their fb page seems to have a bit of activity. dunno what equipment they have though. talking to family it sounds like stuff in generally is hard to get there (everything is flown in via South Africa). so actually, getting a scope I can afford to donate to a club or the school is an excellent idea. @GrumpiusMaximus - i'd never heard of the az-gti so that's good to know - that looks like an excellent travel mount
  5. So, I reckon this might be my first post on here in 10 years or more. I’m a lapsed visual astronomer, but I want to get back into it. I sold my scopes (ed80 and 8” dob) a few years ago, but I still have some accessories (eps, rdf, diagonals, etc). Later this year, we have the chance to visit my wife’s family on St Helena in the mid Atlantic. I’ve never been before, but I’ve read it has Bortle 2 skies and is 16 degrees south, so I’ll have the chance to see things like omega centauri and the lmc/smc, plus all the other things I’d never normally get to see (I know basically nothing about the southern sky, but 2 minutes in stellarium shows me Sagittarius is going to be high, and that’s enough for me). Anyway, what would people recommend for a scope that I can fly with? We have a toddler, so a good chunk of our luggage is going to be taken up with his stuff. I’m thinking one of the SkyWatcher or ursa major tabletop dobs? Can anyone who has one talk about how flyable they are? How big are the OTAs? Would they fit in hand luggage? If not, would you risk the OTA of a heritage 150 in checked baggage? Do the bases come apart? Or maybe a short refractor like the skywatcher or Bresser ones is a better idea? I realise then I’ll need a small alt az mount. I dunno. Sorry for the rambling, incoherent question. Cheers. Stephen.
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