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glynnlondon

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  1. This is an great question I love my 4" tal Tho may be complementing it at last with an 8" dob. 4" ed frac may be on the cards as well No doubt the how many eyes have you got and you can't read the paper anyway barbs are probably incoming
  2. All new scopes come with weather I'm afraid. At least you're not getting a Takahashi , you wouldn't see clear skies till next June 😊
  3. The DOB has the superior aperture so for visual that would win out for me. You could of course also get a small frac like an ed 80 , they are fairly ubiquitous in the UK secondary market and go for a couple of hundred pounds. That could work for ap on your eq5 and use the DOB for visual maybe.
  4. Each to their own , that's why it's a good idea to visit a local astronomy club to see what suits you best. I for one will be keeping my Tal I'm happy to say. Aperture rules my Bottom ?
  5. Me too I was hoping for more than 5kg myself. I thought being skywatcher they might have made it with their 5 inch scope in mind. Bit disappointed in all honesty , tho the slo mo controls look nice.
  6. looks like you've caught the Orion nebula as well as a bonus!
  7. Blooming fone that's come out all spangly Like a dob on Vega
  8. With my small back garden I have to shuffle around fir trees to the front and the house to the back so alt az is ideal for me. They block out the street lights a treat tho !
  9. My Tal 100 R on old mount setup and on new mount setup
  10. With the clear skies tonight I had the scope out and also found an old xmas present i hadnt even opened. An astronomy with binoculars package. In it were a pair of orion explorer 7 x 35 wa bins with 4 dustcaps in a plastic bag inside a canvas case. First light they showed up the pleiades and andromeda lovely. An orion redbeam mini as well tho its been so many years the batteries are dead !
  11. Back in the mid 80s I used my fathers 10 x 50 Carl Zeiss Jena bins and a book called astronomy with binoculars. I remember they were pretty good but blooming heavy. They were clattered clambering up the roof of the shed more than a few times ! My favourite view was the smudge of the andromeda galaxy
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